Yes, it's the 'thing' called 'preaching the Gospel/Good News.'
right...the very same mission given in the OT...yet they failed too...as did the Pharisees who taught from Moses’ seat but DID NOT DO
Preaching the Gospel, is the Father's will.
and actions speak louder than words...by their fruit ye shall know them...not their teachings...
The only powers the Church's pastors claim are those passed on to them by the Apostles,
I don’t see where the apostles changed the customs in scripture...nor do I see where they made claims to be able to change the keys (teachings) they were given...please consider any changes to the key would render it useless to its intended lock
who in turn received them from Christ, Who commissioned each of them to administrate His Church.
right and in keeping with “Do my Father’s will”...Peter understood advising Yah’s commandments rather than man’s traditions...
You see, Peter the “founder of the church”, was told “get thee behind me Satan” because he had advocated a change in the mission and teaching of the church...
You can be sure he followed the script and made no further deviations...
Church tradition with its pomp and ceremony and creeds and dogmas merely continued where the Pharisees left of with their additions and omissions from the Word...
...all the changes of course made outside of biblical time...and by proud and boastful ones who thought to change both times and laws...
Peter was scolded for his refusal.
right and not once but TWICE did he interpret the vision as meaning the formerly “unclean” gentiles were now to be ministered to...has NOTHING to do with ham sandwiches are ok to eat now...
was it? All four requirements were ALREADY found in the OT
1. abstain from food polluted by idols - Leviticus 17:8-9 "Say to them: 'Any Israelite or any alien living among them who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice and does not bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD--that man must be cut off from his people.' " To guard carefully against idolatry, this command was interpreted by the Jews to prohibit eating any meat that had been offered in a prohibited manner. In Rev. 2:14, 20 the words of Jesus show agreement with that interpretation.
2. from sexual immorality - Leviticus 18:6-26 lists a wide range of sexually immoral activities and ends with, "The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things,"
3. from the meat of strangled animals - Leviticus 17:13,15 "Any Israelite or any alien living among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth,
"Anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean." These were interpreted by the Jews to prohibit eating the meat of strangled animals.
4. and from blood - Leviticus 17:10 "Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood--I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people."
http://www.fogwhistle.ca/acts/evidence.html
(You seem earnest and sincere...I recommend you read that study)
Oh and James knew the crowding gentiles would continue to hear Moses read to them each Sabbath...nothing there about change from Sabbath to Sunday as the gentiles were happy crowding the synagogues...the change from Sabbath was a later issue...about 300 years later
He warned of false teachers and those returning to their vomit...he did not compromise...but according to you he could have as all things were changed...is exactly the false witness of jews claiming Stephen and Paul taught the the Messiah changed the customs...but that was false witness
Imagine Christianity without any martyrs. Not much to imagine.
martyrs occurred as they refused to compromise to new teachings...