Point To Ponder 12/03/2006

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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity.
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BIBLE QUIZ: (see Acts 15:22-29)
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(New Testament/Book of Acts, Chapter 15) The following letter was written - The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings. We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul--men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:

You are to abstain from …Delete one wrong answer from those below…

1. Food sacrificed to idols

2. From blood

3. From associating with people of this world

4. From the meat of strangled animals

5. From sexual immorality.

You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
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