Props and visuals: fishing boat / fishing net / tablecloth and stick / backpack / diaper bag / purse or satchel

You know how some dreams won’t let go of you? Sometimes God has a message for you, and speaks in this “forgotten language” of dreams. Sometimes God needs to prepare you for something that’s hard for you to hear.

In our scripture story today as told in the Acts of the Apostles, God was preparing Peter for his visit with Cornelius. And for something even greater!

But as everything goes with Peter, it would take a while to sink in. (Pardon the pun).

Peter had been a fisherman all of his life. And so, the metaphor Jesus used to help Peter understand mission and evangelism was one he could well understand –his fishing net. “You will be fishers of men, he said to Peter and the othe…