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Acts 10:9-23

Oct 11, 2026  •  Bruce Gordon

What happens when God calls us beyond the boundaries we have spent a lifetime building? In Acts 10, we find Peter on a rooftop, hungry and praying, when heaven opens and everything he thought he knew about holiness, separation, and who belongs to God gets turned upside down. Three times a sheet descends filled with animals the Jewish law declared unclean, and three times a voice commands him to eat. Three times Peter refuses, even calling God 'Lord' in the same breath that he tells him no. This moment forces us to ask a searching question of ourselves: how often do we do the very same thing? We dress our refusals in the language of devotion, telling God we have never done such a thing, that we are the ones who keep the rules, all while missing the deeper transformation he is trying to work in us. The vision is not ultimately about food. It is about the walls we build around our hearts and who we decide is worthy of grace. When the three Gentile men arrive at the gate moments later, the dots begin to connect. God had been preparing Peter not just to change his diet, but to change his world. The same Spirit who sent the vision also sent those men, and he is still in the business of dismantling our comfortable boundaries today.