Acts: Being the Church | The Only Way for Everyone
July 7, 2019 / Ryan Bussiere
In a pluralistic society like ours inclusivism is a virtue. We tend to judge the praiseworthiness of any given worldview by how it does in the sandbox. Does it play nice? Does it insist on it's own way? Does it exclude anyone?
And there may be a good impulse in this. Love, after all, seeks the good of others - an inclusive pursuit!
But is there a kind of loving exclusivism?
The Biblical picture of love may surprise us. There we see that the God who is love is at once both more exclusive than us and more inclusive than us, in different ways - and this has huge implications on what being the church looks like.
In what ways is God more inclusive than we are? In what ways is he more exclusive than we are? And how inclusive and exclusive does he call us to be?
Join us as we continue walking through the Book of Acts and discover in the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch both the radical inclusivity and exclusivity interwoven in God's design for being the church.
Acts 8:4-8, 26-40
