This week, we start reading passages from the Acts of the Apostles and the epistles—all of which are centered around the formation of the earliest Church in different communities. Starting something new is never easy! There are no clear rules and guidelines; people seldom agree on the best actions to take; conflicts can threaten the whole enterprise. And yet, here we are as the global Church thousands of years later. This new thing was not perfect, but it worked.
The story in Acts today shows how the good news about Jesus (God’s love embodied) reached someone who was both a foreigner and a sexual minority. It all started with them trying to understand the Bible. Is that something you struggle with today in 2021? We learn better together, so let’s think about this story together…