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Faith in God seems complicated today. Religion even more complicated. So complicated we often avoid the conversation or discussion. In Acts 15 we read about a council meeting in Jerusalem where a complicated discussion was taking place about religious customs, rules, and laws.

There were those not long after Jesus came who wanted to attach rules and requirements to his message. Humans love to set up hoops for others to jump through. God has made it too simple so we must make it more complex to make it into 'something'.

Here we see Peter remind the others to keep it simple. Keep it Jesus. Since this point in history people have continued to complicate the message of Jesus. Humans over the past 2000 years have attached customs, traditions, rules, wars, denominations, nations, discrimination, doctrines, and politics to the message Jesus brought to us. I know even today there are things I have attached to the message.