Peter said, “I really am learning that God doesn’t show partiality to one group of people over another. Rather, in every nation, whoever worships him and does what is right is acceptable to him. This is the message of peace he sent to the Israelites by proclaiming the good news through Jesus Christ: He is Lord of all! You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism John preached. You know about Jesus of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and endowed with power. Jesus traveled around doing good and healing everyone oppressed by the devil because God was with him. We are witnesses of everything he did, both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him up on the third day and allowed him to be seen, not by everyone but by us. We are witnesses whom God chose beforehand, who ate and drank with him after God raised him from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.” (Acts 10:34-43, CEB)
Whoever worships God and does what is right…
What is right? And who decides what is right?
I mean Jesus loved everyone and welcomed everyone. Jesus went with the people most “religious” people would avoid. I know that a lot of people don’t go to church now because they find Jesus in people who don’t go to church or aren’t welcome in church because they aren’t doing it right according to the rules.
But “Peter said, “I really am learning that God doesn’t show partiality to one group of people over another. “” Why can’t we get that?
When we exclude one person the body isn’t complete and it is not our place to say who is in and who is out. That judgment belongs to God.
Love.
Love like Jesus.
Eat and hang out with the people who aren’t “right” to make a difference.
Loving People. Loving God.
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