From The Pulpit of DUMC

#12. Out Is In - Rev. Shane Page

Episode Summary

This Sunday we come to part five of our six part journey through the book of Acts. This week we will reflect on the most critical interpretive moment in the church's early life, a moment without which none of us, unless my reader happens to be Jewish, would be followers of Israel's Messiah, Jesus. Acts 10 presents the moment when the plot thickened for the Jewish apostles, all of whom devoted themselves to the observance of the purity laws of the Torah. Peter finds himself summoned by the Spirit of God to the home of a Gentile, a non-Jew, even to eat with him--a shocker!--and wonder of wonders, the Spirit of Jesus Christ descended upon him as it did for his Jewish followers. Even the non-Jews have access to the God of Israel! Let's ponder this Sunday what truly was a revelatory earthquake for the first Christians whose shockwaves persist to this day.