Friday – Reflect – Pioneer Pork
We pray and reflect about this week’s topic. Meeting with a Group? Your discussion questions are in this week’s Group Study Guide [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
Thursday – Act On It – Pioneer Pork
We’re studying this week how Peter, one of the first Christian leaders, received instructions to meet with a non-Jew named Cornelius, even though he would make Peter unclean. God gave him a vision of many animals, including unclean ones, and told him he could eat anything now. Dietary rules weren’t going to stand between God’s […]
Wednesday – Change It – Pioneer Pork
Yesterday, we learned about a story where Peter, one of the early Christian leaders, breaks his nation’s religious rules by associating with a non-Jew named Cornelius, even entering his home. In a nation with strict rules about keeping a distance from other, unclean people, this was a big deal. I asked you yesterday to think […]
Tuesday- Study It – Pioneer Pork
https://vimeo.com/101588991 Yesterday I shared a story about visiting a kosher home, where they asked no food to enter that they hadn’t bought, just to be sure no one would make their home, or family, “unclean”. These laws are found in the OT part of the Bible, a Bible that Christians say is the word of […]
Monday – A New Idea – Pioneer Pork
Back in university, a friend of mine invited about a dozen people to her family’s house in Vermont for a weekend of skiing. I jumped at the chance, it was goign to be some of the best skiing I’d ever done, and a free place to stay was amazing. There was one rule. Don’t bring […]
Group Study Guide – Pioneer Pork
Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: Have you ever visited a home, a place of worship, or a country where you were asked to comply with certain religious practices? Share that […]