Acts 11

“You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them” (v3). The Jerusalem leaders of the early church were slow to understand that the gospel was for non-Jews as well.  Peter had to tell the whole story of his vision to justify his meeting with Cornelius and other Gentiles, concluding with them being baptized with the Spirit.  While the leadership was slow to grasp what God was doing, bold, ordinary believers took the gospel to Antioch, where many Gentiles believed in Jesus and a strong church was born (v19-26).

“What God has made clean, do not call common” (v9).  The gospel both shows us the truth about our own hearts and opens the door to being one family in Christ.