We read in ACTS 8 about the Gospel going out of Jerusalem into Judea & Samaria.
As the church suffered persecution, God used that to spread the Good News about Jesus Christ to those who needed to hear it!
A huge barrier to that happening was the relationship, or the lack of it, between Jews & Samaritans. To say that they disliked each other would be to put it lightly!
No wonder Jesus upset people when he told the parable of the good Samaritan! (Luke 10:25-37)
How would this barrier be broken?
With the Gospel!
The Gospel is all about reconciliation, firstly between God & mankind, & then between each of us! No longer Jew or Samaritan, Greek or anything else. (Galatians 3:28) And God has given us the Gospel to bring about that reconciliation!
"All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself & gave us the ministry of reconciliation;" (2 Corinthians 5:18)
We all need Christ working in our lives, reconciling us to God, & to others!
What a joy to be able to view each other as brothers & sisters, no matter the colour of our skin or the nationality of our birth!
That's the Gospel of Jesus Christ at work!
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