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When Jesus sent His disciples out to do ministry, He sent them out two-by-two. This is something we see as a regular practice for the Early Church as well. Ministry is something we see in the New Testament as a communal act. Some scholars point out that perhaps the reason that Jesus sent the disciples in pairs was so that people in towns and villages could see the Kingdom in action.

This Kingdom is centered on loving and serving one another, so God’s goal was not to empower individual disciples to be “all-star” evangelizes—sharing a verbal message that gets understood—but to share the Kingdom by seeing it in action. The Kingdom is something you experience, not something that you understand.

So even when Paul and Barnabus disagree about how to do ministry that they can’t reconcile, they don’t give up on Jesus's mission or community. They both take on another ministry partner and spread the gospel even farther. They are committed to an interactive life with God together.

In our modern world, it can be easy to wonder, “why do I need to be a part of a Church?” There’s so much content online - great worship, great sermons and Bible studies - why do I need to be involved with people? People are the ones that bring Church hurt. But Jesus never intended for the Church to be a message we receive or content we consume. It’s always been about a community, centered on Jesus and His Spirit, and sent out on mission. So are you joining the mission of Jesus or just consuming content?

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The next surprising move of the Spirit is that God has extended the Kingdom beyond the Jews/Samaritans. The Samaritans were enemies of the Jews, but they at least had once been Israelites. With the inclusion of Cornelius, a gentile man, God was reconciling all ethnicities into the family of God. And then in Antioch we see the first picture of a multi-ethnic Church.

Wherever the Holy Spirit is at work in a community, people will cross boundaries that we’d never expect. People from different nations, ethnicities, and languages will find themselves as family with one another. It’s difficult work. But if we are to be a community led by the Spirit of God, we must not be comfortable until we represent the diversity of the society we live in.

Until our Church begins to reflect the diversity of our schools, our workplaces, our neighborhoods. Until men, women, and children of every color and language are able to find their place in God’s Kingdom here in our Church, and are able to embrace one another as brothers and sisters. This is us joining Jesus in the life He’s living now - reconciling people together.