uncircumcision matters, since what matters is new creation (Gal 6:15) and, within that, “faith working through love” (5:6). In any case, as with more than one subsequent church agreement, what mattered was that all sides were happy and could go back home and work out what to do from there. The agreement, such as it was, was at least based on secure theological foundations, as in verse 8: God was at work. This is Paul’s regular way of speaking about how the gospel takes effect. The gospel is “God’s