Welcome to Further In, a podcast where Pastor Ben and members of our team take a deeper look at Sunday's message at Passion City Church, D.C., and consider how to apply the truths of God's word to our lives today.

Welcome back to the pod, Pastor Ben. That's right.

Yeah.

It's been a minute.

It's been a minute. Peter and Cornelius.

If you have any lagging thoughts on Peter and Cornelius, we'll get him out here.

I wanted to preach Peter and Cornelius so bad.

Don't get me started.

Don't make me talk.

But, no, I thought Landon did a tremendous job.

And the only thing I'll point out that's interesting, if you're reading the Bible and

want to look at it, I love the way Luke lays out.

If you see what he's doing, the Book of Acts is not just the story of the birth of the church.

You see how it transitioned from a small group of exclusively Jewish followers to a global

movement. You know, you go from Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, to Romans right afterwards. How did the

gospel get to the Romans or the Corinthians? And, you know, how did this happen? And Luke has such a

smooth job of telling the story, but I love the way he sort of introduces characters at the end of an episode.

You know, Saul is approving the death of Stephen.

And then you see him come around.

And if you missed it, he's been doing this interchange in a sense where it was,

you see the conversion of Saul, but people aren't sure what to do with him,

so they park him, and then we go back to Peter, and God has Peter break through the barrier

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