Today on Summit Life, Pastor J.D. Greer explains the Jewish dilemma.

If we could barely keep those laws ourselves, and we were born Jews,

why would we project this burden onto Gentiles?

In other words, none of these laws saved us anyway. They didn't make us closer to God.

It wasn't what we did that made us close to God. It's what Jesus had done. That's what saved us.

And so if that's what makes him close to God, while're projecting this burden on to him. Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Vittevich.

You're joining us today in a teaching series titled Sent,

as we explore the mission of the early church throughout the book of acts.

And today, Pastor J.D reminds us that the early church was anything but vanilla.

It was full of people from all kinds of backgrounds and ethnicities.

And you know what?

That diversity was designed by God.

Now, remember, if you've missed any of the messages

in this study of the Book of Acts,

you can catch up online.

Or if you'd like to study the complete unedited message

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now here's pastor jade with a message from axe chapter 15 the book of axe tells Acts Chapter 15.

The Book of Acts tells the rather remarkable story of how a group of ordinary people, blue-collar

workers and tax collectors and a few women that started the greatest religious movement in history.

The story by any measure, whether you're a Christian or not, just the story itself is really rather remarkable.

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