Why do some people always want to put Christians into a tight little box? Why should we limit the gospel to people who have heard it all before? Why shouldn’t we take the gospel beyond the four walls of the church to people who don’t look like us, walk like us, talk like us, or share our views? Why must we always talk to the people who think like we think and do as we do? Why doesn’t our conversation and proclamation go forth to people who need to be converted to Christ? It is true that people in the church need to be converted, but what about those people in those neighborhoods, environments, and conditions who are beyond our reach but who need to hear the Good News of Christ?

Peter was confronted with the dilemma of “preaching to the choir” or taking the message beyond the boundaries and …