While talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people.
\n \u2014 Acts 10:27<\/p>\n
She walked to church regularly on Sunday mornings, and on one occasion she saw a most unlikely character. He was barely sober and headed to the liquor store. Though she might easily have ignored him, on that morning she felt she needed to invite this man to church. She suggested that he come with her the rest of the way and enjoy both a service and a coffee. He accepted her invitation and came through the doors.\u00a0Many years earlier this man had heard the story of Jesus, and on that morning it all came back to him and filled his heart. He soon began attending worship services regularly. He also began coming in to help clean the building, and he made coffee for anyone who came through the doors. Often, when he was standing on the front steps, he began to invite others in. When someone asked him, \u201cWhat is this place?\u201d he explained that it was the church. The door began to open more frequently because of his invitations. And Jesus became real to many of the people who came in because of this man\u2019s invitations.\u00a0Cornelius the centurion was a believer who was not Jewish\u2014 yet God chose to connect him and Peter to make the story of the gospel bigger. Cornelius filled his home with people who wanted to hear more\u2014 and Peter, inspired and led by a dream, shared the good news of Jesus.\u00a0Whom might your unlikely person of peace be?<\/p>\n
Dear God, help us to see each person as one of your dear children. May we respond faithfully when you call on us to share. In Jesus, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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