“Therefore, in my judgment, we should not cause difficulties for those among the Gentiles who turn to God, but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.” (vv. 19-20)

Yes, you are freed.

Yes, you are saved by grace.

Yes, you are a Christian who is not under the law.

But you are still restrained.

Following Christ, in freedom, has never been a moral free-for-all. Even from the start, Gentiles—non-Jewish, other-religious converts—were instructed for right worship and right morals. Some have painted the grace we have in Christ as “anything goes.” But it is not so and has never been so.

So, yes, we are free.

But we are still (rightly) restrained.

— Tyler