{"id":2192,"date":"2011-08-24T10:20:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T14:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fbclafayette.org\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2014-07-21T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:17:09","slug":"acts-and-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/acts-and-ethnicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts and Ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The sermon this past week<\/a> focused on Acts 8 and the persecution of the early church.\u00a0 We know from our previous study in Acts that the gospel was going to spread from Jerusalem to all Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8).\u00a0\u00a0 From Acts 2-7 we see the church in Jerusalem.\u00a0 It has grown substantially in size and strength.\u00a0 The Spirit is empowering God\u2019s people to do amazing things, but the problem is that the church is still only in Jerusalem. The time for expansion has come.\u00a0 Pastor Viars said several times something close to, \u201cwhen you are in hard times, find a Samaritan.\u201d\u00a0 His point is that hard times breed opportunities for church expansion.<\/p>\n

Jew\/Samaritan Animosity<\/h2>\n

In the process, Pastor Viars gave a bit of history related to the Jew and Samaritan animosity.\u00a0 The Samaritans had abandoned the Jewish faith because they created a separate worship center.\u00a0 The Samaritans had also abandoned their ethnic heritage by intermarriage with foreign men and women that, in the minds of the Jews, had corrupted pure Jewish blood and violated the commandments of God.\u00a0 Most of the damage had been done many years before the time in Christ, but it is during the time of Christ when we see the animosity at work.<\/p>\n

The Gospel\u00a0Overcomes\u00a0Ethnic Boundaries<\/h2>\n

But in Acts something happens.\u00a0 The Spirit works and those who were scattered shared Christ with the Samaritans (and the Ethopian).\u00a0 When they sent word back to the apostles in Jerusalem, Peter and John were dispatched \u2026 talk about two heavy hitters!\u00a0 There was great rejoicing at the number of people coming to Christ (8:8).<\/p>\n

That leads me to this thought \u2026 do we view people through the grid of ethnicity (which is a much better word than race, since all humans are part of the human race), or through the grid of eternity?<\/strong> Phillip was constrained by the latter.\u00a0 What are you constrained by?<\/p>\n

Oh that we would all remember the words of the little chorus some of us learned as children \u2026<\/p>\n

Jesus loves the little children [the big ones too]\n

All the children of the world,<\/p>\n

Red, and Yellow, Black and White, they are precious in His sight<\/p>\n

Jesus loves the little children of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s not allow ethnic, economic, or social differences keep us from inviting others to church, keep us from sharing the love of Jesus, or most importantly giving them the gospel of the Lord Jesus \u2013 the One who is mighty to save.\u00a0 After all, one of the barriers that the cross destroyed was the barrier of ethnicity (Eph 2:11-22).\u00a0 Until the whole world hears!<\/p>\n

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Have you missed any of these Acts posts? Find all of them under the Acts 2011 tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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