Acts 11

“So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them” (2- 3). Initially, the Jewish Christians had trouble believing that God was saving Gentiles, too. The Messiah Jesus was from Jewish culture, descended from the tribe of Judah; he fulfilled the promises to Abraham. How could uncircumcised people with a different history be the Messiah’s people too? Yet eventually they saw that God’s radical salvation through Jesus extended “even to Gentiles” (18).

No particular culture or history makes us acceptable to God. We are all equally sinful and desperately need “the good news about the Lord Jesus” to put us right with God (20).