Week #4 of our weekend series called "Perspectives Exposure" is in the books (5 weeks, 5 people, 5 encounters with God to see things from God’s perspective).
We looked at the apostle Peter in Acts 10 who had his life of comfort & cultural-bias challenged by God
when he was asked to reach out to a Gentile military commander. You can listen here or "Ipod" it here.
Here’s some thoughts from yesterday’s topic.
- Second week in a row where the prep was not easy, but I think God used it greatly. Cuts into my blogging-energy, though.
Cool study I didn’t mention? Joppa (modern Jaffa).- Peter ignored Gentiles (Acts 10:5-6)
- Jonah avoided Gentiles (Jonah 1:1-3)
- Cool study I blew through? Who needs patience:
- People who DON’T know better — Cornelius who bowed down to Peter when they first met (Acts 10:25-26)
- People who SHOULD know better — Christian leaders who ambushed Peter about Cornelius (Acts 11:2-3)
- YOURSELF — Peter who he feared Jewish criticism & stopped eating with Gentiles (Galatians 2:11-14)
Cool study I alluded to? The keys of the kingdom of heaven, given to Peter (Matthew 16:17-19) & along with the order to be used (Acts 1:8)- Jews (Acts 2:1-4,14)
- Samaritans (Acts 8:14-17)
- Gentiles (Acts 10:44-48)
- Other thots that may only interest me?
- I thought the stories of the ridiculous things I’ve said to people would get a bigger laugh at the start. Unfortunately, I suspect people EXPECT that from me! 🙂
- I had NO IDEA my references to biases about Belton & Leawood would get a laugh. But it happened in both services. What was I thinking? 🙂
L8R.
I wasn’t laughing because I was making a note that you offer moving services and “thot” that was an interesting tidbit to write down.
The Belton comment was off the hook!
Have a great week!