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I'm Taylor and I'm Tyler. This is Scripture Central's Come Follow Me Insights. This week, Acts chapter 10 through 15.

This is a very critical turning point in our story of this early Christian movement.

It's actually in this set of chapters where we get that label, Christian, first placed on the

followers of Christ by unbelievers up

in Antioch. So there's a lot that's going to happen. If you've ever been in a situation

where major change has been implemented, where an organization or the church or a family has changed direction and moved off on a new course,

you're going to find principles here that apply to those kinds of situations because,

well, everything's going to shift here, beginning in chapter 10 with Cornelius.

Yeah, so you are probably familiar with the story that this is where we see how the church begins to embrace Gentiles.

And it's a momentous change for the Jewish people to see non-Jewish people participating fully in their

religious life.

So let's set the stage initially because this will help us throughout the rest of the

second half of the New Testament. You have various groups of people. So you have the Jews, you have this

group of people that anybody who's not a Jew is called a Gentile. And there were people that had

actually become Jews from being Gentiles. And we call this group of people

proselytes in the first century. So a proselyte is somebody who has embraced fully

everything from the Judaic tradition. They worship Jehovah, they read the Hebrew Old

Testament, the Hebrew Bible, we call it the Old Testament. They've embraced the 613 laws of the

law of Moses, including the law of circumcision, which becomes a huge deal for the rest of our study of the New Testament.

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