Make Room by Welcoming

After you let go internally (Week 1), you can make room relationally. This week is about crossing boundaries to welcome the unexpected guest. Peter had boundaries that were how Peter understood faithfulness. God gave him a vision, a voice saying "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean." Peter needed to hear it three times. Paradigm shifts don't happen instantly. Meanwhile, Cornelius—a Gentile, Roman centurion, everything Peter's tradition taught him to avoid—has his own vision: send for Peter. Two visions, two people, one divine plan to make room where there had been a wall. Peter goes to Cornelius's house (shocking boundary-crossing). He preaches. And before Peter even finishes, the Holy Spirit falls on these Gentile "outsiders."  

God was already making room. Peter's job was to catch up and join in. God was already at work in Cornelius's house. The Spirit fell before baptism, before Peter finished his sermon. God was ahead of Peter the whole time. The question isn't "How do we make room for them?" The question is "God has already made room—how do we stop blocking it?"