One Message, Different Audience

Paul writes,
Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem,
this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also.

I went in response to a revelation
and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles.
But I did this privately to those who seemed to be leaders,
for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised,
even though he was a Greek.

As for those who seemed to be important --
whatever they were makes no difference to me;
God does not judge by external appearance --
those men added nothing to my message.

On the contrary,
they saw that I had been entrusted
with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles,
just as Peter had been to the Jews.

For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter
as an apostle to the Jews,
was also at work in my ministry
as an apostle to the Gentiles.

James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars,
gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship
when they recognized the grace given to me.
They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles,
and they to the Jews.

All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor,
the very thing I was eager to do.

(Galatians 2:1-3, 6-10;
All scripture taken from New International Version.)

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