They Thought This Was Only for the Jews | Acts 10–11

Acts 10–11 marks a huge turning point in the story of the early church. Cornelius receives a message from God. Peter receives a vision that challenges the way he has understood clean and unclean. Then God brings the two men together and makes one thing unmistakably clear: the gospel is for the Gentiles too. Adam and Kevin discuss Peter’s changing understanding, the conversion of Cornelius, the role of the Holy Spirit, baptism, the reaction in Jerusalem, and the rapid spread of the gospel into Antioch. We also look at an important question for every believer: What happens when God’s truth challenges something we have believed or assumed for a long time? By the end of Acts 11, the gospel is spreading, Antioch is becoming a major center of the early church, and the disciples have a new name: Christians.