Bonds and Boundaries
April 23, 2023
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The early church struggled with shaking the bonds and extending the boundaries created by nationalism, cultural-ism, racism, and religious chauvinism.
In extending its own reach and embrace, there needed to be an accumulation of defining moments, lived-out stories, and expanding relationships infused by manifestations of the Holy Spirit at work among people groups that were outside the original disciples' comfort zones.
The patience and systematic workings of God exceed mine by far, but this is how the church became an international movement, indigenous in every culture where it was planted.
We are still working on this, but there was a time and have been times when it really worked.
This is the missional movement and moment.
Acts 10:46b-47:
" Then Peter said, 'Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?'”