S5:022 – Cross-cultural evangelism (Acts 9:32-43, Part 2)
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5.0 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What is the deeper significance of the miracles Peter does? How should followers of Jesus engage with those of other cultural backgrounds? In this episode, Bruno Ysla shares briefly about how God led him from Peru toDallas. Then, he and Emma Dotter continue their discussion of Acts 9:32-43, including the significance of Peter staying with Simon the Tanner and how followers of Jesus should engage with brothers and sisters from different cultural/ethnic backgrounds.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. |
| 0:04.1 | You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
| 0:09.4 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:10.7 | We are back with segment two of the Join the Journey podcast this week, |
| 0:14.7 | where we are reading Acts 9 versus 31 through 43. |
| 0:19.7 | And I'm still here with the one and only, Mr. Bruno. |
| 0:24.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:24.7 | Aspiring PhD student. |
| 0:26.9 | Exactly. |
| 0:27.7 | Bruno, we ended the last segment yesterday's episode talking about the power of a personal testimony. |
| 0:35.6 | And so I would love it if you would share just a little |
| 0:38.6 | bit about how the Lord has redeemed your heart with your church family and brothers and sisters |
| 0:44.9 | listening all over the world. Yeah, to make it short, I guess. Well, I was born into a Christian |
| 0:51.3 | family. So I usually say that second generation Christians have a |
| 0:56.8 | different challenge because there's not a time where I didn't go to church. Sure. And usually when |
| 1:02.2 | that happens and I guess everywhere, it's harder to draw distinction of a time where, yeah, you weren't |
| 1:09.3 | Christian at all. And now that you are, because you always went to church. |
| 1:13.6 | If your parents were Christian, then, yeah, you always saw |
| 1:16.6 | maybe your extended family, you saw this cultural Christianity. |
| 1:21.6 | So in my case, that happened as well. |
| 1:24.6 | However, I decided to, you know, make the sinner's prayer and to give my life |
| 1:32.3 | to Christ. I remember it in Sunday school. Something that Sunday, the teacher there, just |
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