When God wants to change the status quo, He often starts by giving someone a vision. That\u2019s what broke a centuries-old racial barrier and allowed the Gentiles to hear the Gospel for the first time. Did you know you can be a Christian and be prejudiced? Yes, you can be a believer and be biased towards people you don\u2019t know or understand because you\u2019ve spent your life avoiding them and making judgments about them. <\/p>\n
Jesus told His disciples, \u2018This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a024:14\u00a0NKJV) And Peter was present when Jesus said it. But either he wasn\u2019t listening, or he didn\u2019t like what he heard. Back then, the divide between Jews and Gentiles was similar to the mistrust many British people felt towards German nationals living in the UK during World War II. <\/p>\n
God told Peter to go to the house of Cornelius and preach the Gospel\u2014to a Gentile, a person Peter considered \u2018unclean\u2019. Prejudice is the product of a closed mind. It\u2019s contempt prior to honest investigation. It\u2019s pride that must be humbled. So how did God change Peter\u2019s heart? It required two<\/i> different visions! God gave Cornelius a vision in which He told him to invite a Jewish preacher named Peter into his home to preach the gospel. And at the same time, He gave Peter a vision in which He basically told him, \u2018If I accept someone, don\u2019t you dare reject them!\u2019 <\/p>\n
The truth is, when God wants to change things, He starts the process by giving someone a vision\u2014and that someone could be you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When God wants to change the status quo, He often starts by giving someone a vision. That\u2019s what broke a centuries-old racial barrier and allowed the Gentiles to hear the Gospel for the first time. Did you know you can be a Christian and be prejudiced? Yes, you can be a believer and be biased […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}