Christ's command to his followers before his ascension to heaven was for them to be his witnesses in Jerusalem, all Judea, in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.

Our Lord did not intend for the good news of his death and resurrection to stay local, but

instead it was to be taken globally.

In this third section of Acts, the adventure continues as the gospel is taken to the ends

of the earth.

Let's join Scott Pauli now for today's study.

Sometimes in the Christian life, questions arise, questionable things, we should say.

Should I do this? Should I not? Is this right? Is this wrong? What do you do when the questions

rise? Because they're going to come. The issue is not, are there going to be questions,

disagreements, disputes? The question is, how are we going to resolve this? How are we going to

work through this? And I think Acts

Chapter 15 gives us one of the greatest examples in Scripture of that. Now, the context is that

you've got a whole bunch of Gentiles who are believing the gospel, being saved, churches

being started, and there's a group of Jewish people who think that these Gentiles now need to be

circumcised and so they want to come back and tell all the new converts, well, if you really want

to be right with God, then you've got to do this as well. So there's this tremendous division now.

And what do they do? They return back to the church in Jerusalem to the people that had sent them out.

I love that.

Back to the authority of the local New Testament church.

You know, the Bible says that the church is the pillar and ground of the truth.

That doesn't mean that a church is always right, but it means that the church's job is to hold up

the word of God in a world of lies. We are to hold up the truth. And so someone rightly said

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