Even though Peter had the correct theological stance of inclusion for the
Gentiles through the gospel at the Jerusalem council, we find out soon that
having the right theological stance can be much different than
acknowledging your own ethnocentricity and allowing God, by the power of
the Spirit, to search you and fully deliver you from the culture that
nurtured your fallen mindset. When Peter finally makes it down to Antioch
to see what is transpiring in this new apostolic center, he comes face to
face with his own racism…
Racism is the enemy of missions because true missions is born out of a
vision of the worth of Jesus that produces a self-sacrificing love for
peoples and nations that we have nothing in common with. The only
commonality we have with the unreached of the earth is the compassion of
the Lamb.
— Read on www.mapsglobal.org/blog/a-heavenly-family
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