Day 55 — Peter Explains His Actions, Part 1 (Acts 11:1-10) | June 19

Peter returned to Jerusalem expecting a welcome. He got a trial. "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them." The circumcision party wasn't interested in what happened to Cornelius's household. They went straight for the social offense: a Jewish man at a Gentile table. In this episode, we watch Peter respond with pastoral wisdom. He doesn't pull rank or get defensive. He just tells the story, step by step, including his own resistance. He wanted his critics to know he'd carried the same walls they were carrying. And God had refused to leave him there. The overcoming of prejudice is slow, sometimes painful, and almost always requires a God who is more persistent than we are comfortable with. 

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