Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it, that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things' that have been known for ages. The Verdict of the Jerusalem Church Went Against Franchising The Gospel. There were two aspects to the judgment that they rendered. Gentiles are welcomed by God without being circumcised. It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
Free grace carries with it three lifestyle responsibilities.
We should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath. If you get everything else wrong in life, don't mess up on this one. The second lifestyle responsibility of new believers is to abstain from fornication which means, all sexual sin. The Gentile world was very tolerant of sexual sin.