Emphasis Preaching Journal
Our world suffers color, ethnic...
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Our world suffers color, ethnic, and racial divisions. The early church faced prejudice
problems, too. Beginning as an all-Jewish movement, some believers thought it should
remain that way. They resented Peter's Spirit-led mingling with the Gentile, Cornelius, in
Caesarea. "So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized
him."
"We're related to the Queen of England," my mother used to tell us when my siblings and I were young. She spoke derisively of my dad's origins basing her judgment mostly on his parents' modest circumstances.
"We're related to the Queen of England," my mother used to tell us when my siblings and I were young. She spoke derisively of my dad's origins basing her judgment mostly on his parents' modest circumstances.
