Throughout the book of Acts, we have seen God’s miraculous hand over the Christian church. People were coming to faith, being baptized, and experiencing a new kind of community. But there was still one problem, the Jewish Christians couldn’t break their traditions and accept the new Gentile believers without circumcision. So what does God do? He breaks through and surprises the apostle Peter by redefining what it means to be clean and unclean, paving the way for Gentiles to be accepted into this new community. What traditions might God need to break in your life so that He can surprise you? What does it look like to be open to receive what God is trying to teach us?
