A Multinational Mission

Exodus 14-16; Acts 2 

“Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven…Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs…All the believers were together and had everything in common.”

Acts 2:5, 9-11, 44

The Church was birthed at Pentecost as a multinational, multicultural mission. Jews and God-fearers from many regions around the Mediterranean basin were in Jerusalem and received the gospel in the power of the Spirit. As these new disciples of Christ repented, were baptized, and filled with the Holy Spirit, they radically sacrificed, served, and worshipped together. Some stayed in Jerusalem to receive more teaching before returning to their home-areas with the gospel. Their experience of salvation and the person of the Holy Spirit upended their lives and gave them a new purpose for living. They were now part of a multi-cultural, multi-national mission called the Church. Every day God added more people. This is the DNA of the Church.

Does it describe us?

“Jesus, thank you for diversity in your Church, for your glory.”