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Acts 15:1-35

The first church council took place in Jerusalem. It was perhaps the greatest council in the history of the church and certainly the most important because it focused on the central issue by which the new church would rise or fall. Today on the Bible Study Hour, Dr. James Boice details the issue that was threatening to divide the early believers, and how imperative that first meeting was to the future of the church.

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Acts 15:1-35