These past weeks deep wounds of racial injustice resurfaced – wounds that date back to the founding of our nation. It is a burden of pain with which the church was familiar, meeting in homes in a climate of crippling Roman oppression. Yet, those early disciples met their societal challenges head on with the gospel – devoting themselves to the Word of God, to fellowship, the breaking of bread and to prayer. (Acts 2:42). Within a few short decades had "turned the world upside down" (Acts 17:6). Acts is the description of the Church on Mission – the playbook for heart-transformation that America desperately needs.
