Responding to Acts 11:1-18
Haiku of new insights
No way! The Gentiles
have come to faith! Was that in
our mission statement?
What goes on, Peter?
Eating with Gentiles? You know
they're uncircumcised!
It's like this, said Pete.
I had a vision; a sheet
of unclean creatures.
A voice spoke to me:
Get up and eat! No way, Lord,
I don't eat unclean.
The voice spoke again:
If I say it's clean, it's clean!
Now do what I say.
It happened three times;
leaving me perplexed, not sure
as to its meaning.
Just then, three men came.
Go with them, said the Spirit.
Thought we'd better go.
The house was Gentile,
but that no longer mattered.
We went inside, preached.
The uncircumcised
heard the gospel and believed;
we didn't plan it!
The Holy Spirit
fell on them, just like on us;
so we baptised them.
The penny has dropped:
God's salvation is for all,
both Jew and Gentile.
© Ken Rookes 2025
