14 Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to
take out of them a people for his name.
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David,
which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will
set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the
Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the Lord, who doeth all these
things.
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among
the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of
idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
James
explains that Gentiles do not need to become full converts to Judaism to
be acceptable before God. Rather, as long as the Gentiles follows the
seven Noahide laws
they can fellowship and learn as they go.
21 For
Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being
read in the synagogues every Sabbath day.
The
Gentiles were allowed to attend synagogue every Sabbath to learn, The
school of Hillel (along with believers in "the Way") promoted the idea
of the Jewish people being "a light" to the Gentiles, and did not
isolate themselves from them. That had been
God’s intention from the beginning.