You receive a harassing email. Or perhaps a disturbing phone call left on voicemail. Maybe at your congregation someone is constantly trying to get you into a theological debate. Or maybe you have a co-worker who is so opinionated it is painful to even say “hello” without a battle.

Do you know people like this? How should you respond to a person such as those described above?

We have received lots of great questions over the last few weeks via email and Facebook, so I will take some time to address them.  Acts 10:11 is a great starting point.

In this passage, Peter is about to be sent by God to visit Cornelius, who is a Gentile (i.e., non-Jewish) believer in God.  Prior to their encounter, Peter has a vision where a sheet comes down from heaven.  The sheet is filled with animals, and we can guess it contained clean and unclean animals because not all four-footed animals were unclean (Acts 10:10-11).

After an exchange between a voice, presumably God, and Peter, we arrive at the conclusion of the vision “What God has made clean, you must not call common (Acts 10:15).”  But what on earth did this mean?