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X chapter 15, verse 28, says, for it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements.

This is a really interesting verse and interesting phrase in the middle of

Acts 15 so you've got disagreement even

division in the church that brings about the council at Jerusalem where they need to

make some decisions on what do we do with these Gentiles who are being brought

into the church. What I love is they have all this discussion and then their

conclusion is they say it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us. I love that phrase.

This picture of believers gathering together to discuss their disagreements, knowing they've got to come to a

conclusion and that conclusion they come to is driven by the work of the

Holy Spirit in that

in that group. I just think about situations I've been in in so many different relationships with other followers of Christ.

I mean it could be in marriage, with my wife,

I think about, you know, in family, I think about you know and family I think about in the church I think about

in leadership in the church when we've got decisions we've got to make the

importance of in the middle of those decisions coming together, sharing what

we are seeing, what we are sensing based on God's word and sharing our convictions and then going to God in prayer and just asking

Holy Spirit bring about consensus in us help us move forward we want to get to a

point where we can say, so we're at different

on different pages when we come into this conversation, we want to get to the point

though where we can say it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us that we do this. And so I would just encourage you if you are in a situation even

right now where you and some other followers of Christ are disagreeing on something

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