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Acts 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 of

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 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 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 of the Holy Spirit and to us that we do this. And so I would just encourage you,

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