“Peter,” he says, “you and I now know that a person is counted acceptable before God not on the basis of their practice of the Law but because of their trust in Christ—trust that signals absolute dependence on the gift given in Christ. The practice of the Law is not what counts before God in any absolute or complete sense. In making this total investment in Christ, our fellowship with gentile believers may require that we contravene the standard of ‘righteousness’ that we previously thought was integral to our good standing before God.
