Acts 10 is an important time in the life of the church; it tells of when the Body of Christ, the church, recognizes that God desires to reconcile all things to God's self. Even the Gentiles. Acts 10 tells of the Holy Spirit falling upon peoples---even before Scripture tells us that they believe what they heard. The Holy Spirit isn't limited to working through believers.
God makes all things new. We claim this as our Truth. Peter proclaims that God has commanded: "What God has made clean, you must not call profane." God makes all things new, all things clean. The Good News of Acts 10 is that the Church need not be the gatekeeper. The Church is to declare that in God's Kingdom "the gates will never be shut." (Revelation 21). As the Body of Christ, our role is to shine the light of this Truth into the darkness and to be agents of this light. God desires that all of Creation be reconciled to God. Don't we think that God is going to get what God wants?
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