Getting Started:

Q: Have you ever met someone you didn’t think you could like who turned out to be a friend later?

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Q: Have you ever felt unequal?

• Have you ever made someone else feel unequal?

RE-READ: Acts 10:9-23 NLT

Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon, and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds. Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.” “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.” But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.” The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven. 

Peter was very perplexed. What could the vision mean? Just then the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house. Standing outside the gate, they asked if a man named Simon Peter was staying there. Meanwhile, as Peter was puzzling over the vision, the Holy Spirit said to him, “Three men have come looking for you. Get up, go downstairs, and go with them without hesitation. Don’t worry, for I have sent them.” So Peter went down and said, “I’m the man you are looking for. Why have you come?” They said, “We were sent by Cornelius, a Roman officer. He is a devout and God-fearing man, well respected by all the Jews. A holy angel instructed him to summon you to his house so that he can hear your message.” So Peter invited the men to stay for the night.

• What is something you’ve had to rethink?

  • How has it changed you?

  • What would you say to others struggling through that same journey?

• How do we, as a church family, create a space where everyone feels valued and welcome?

  • How do we help others, and ourselves, have open conversations?

• Who\what do you struggle with accepting (culture, diversity, status, gender, sexuality, etc)?

the vision of the church is radical inclusivity

BEFORE YOU LEAVE

Do you have the courage and will to be changed by God - whatever the change may be?

Commit as a group to being open to God’s Spirit as it moves us through series, and pray that we can all take steps toward understanding God’s love for everyone and extending that love in how we live.