Big Church Week Four: "The Threshold"
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This week I am continuing my sermon series on the book of Acts , entitled "Big Church"---a series based on the idea that the Church is a movement, not an institution. As we continue to affirm each week: Jesus didn't create a mission for the Church, Jesus created a church for his mission. The passage of Scripture that I'll be preaching from this week is Acts 10. Yup. The whole chapter. I tried to break it down a bit, but in the end I decided to just preach from the whole chapter. I'm not going to reprint the entire chapter here in the blog, though. Click here to read the whole chapter, which I highly recommend that you do right this instant. So this whole story starts off with a vision--- Cornelius , the centurion has one of an angel who tells him to go send for Peter , the Apostle, and then the story jumps to Peter who has a vision of a sheet full of non-kosher animals that he is commanded to "kill and eat." A word about visions might