Jesus offends - Kosher food

When you look at the New Testament you'll find that there is no direct ruling saying what you can and what you can't eat. It comes down to a matter of conscience, and certainly, this was necessary because the New Testament was going to be spread as a missionary religion. If you're going to go to preach the Gospel to people, then you had to be able to have fellowship with them. You had to be able to eat with them, and if you put up a wall saying you can't eat certain foods and you you must be circumcised, you must be keeping the Sabbath, then that would be a barrier towards people from a non-Jewish background coming to faith in Jesus.