Radical Obedience, Radical Love 6/28/26

Imagine standing at a cultural crossroads, heart pounding with fear and excitement. Thirty miles from home, you step into a room full of people your entire life trained you to avoid. That’s exactly where Peter found himself in Acts 10. A Jewish fisherman-turned-apostle, Peter had walked with Jesus, witnessed miracles, and heard the Great Commission. Yet deep cultural prejudices still held him back from fully embracing God’s heart for the Gentiles. 

In Acts 10:1-38, we watch God shatter those walls, not through argument or sudden intellectual breakthrough, but through radical obedience. Peter’s story reminds us that we all carry conditioned prejudices. In our city of Seattle, with its diverse neighborhoods, tensions around race, class, politics, addiction, and homelessness, we too can default to “us vs. them.” But God is calling us higher. Today, we will see how radical obedience equals radical love, just as it did for Jesus and for Peter.