“Have We Ever Missed God’s Crucial Point 我們曾否錯失神決定性的重點呢？“（Acts 使徒行傳 11:1-10）
The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticised him and said, ‘You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.’ Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: … Then I heard a voice telling me, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.” ‘I replied, “Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.” ‘The voice spoke from heaven a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.
使徒和在猶太的弟兄們，聽說外族人也接受了神的道。彼得上到耶路撒冷的時候，那些守割禮的人與他爭論，說：“你竟然到未受割禮的人那裡，跟他們一起吃飯！”彼得就按著次序向他們講解，說：… 我也聽見有聲音對我說：‘彼得，起來，宰了吃！ ’我說：‘主啊，千萬不可，因為俗物或不潔的東西，從來沒有進過我的口。 ’第二次又有聲音從天上回答：‘神所潔淨的，你不可當作俗物。 ’這樣一連三次之後，所有的東西都拉回天上去了。
Those circumcised believers were apparently more concerned with what Peter did (sharing a meal / having a fellowship with non-Jews considered to be a significant compromise) than with what God was doing with the Gentiles. God through Peter/Luke emphasized the importance of those events by repeating the story. At first, Peter thought God spoke this about food. But Peter came to understand the vision of the sheet, kosher and unkosher animals had to do with people, not food. There is a sense in which the sheet represents the church, having both ‘kosher’ (Jews) and ‘unkosher’ (Gentiles) on it, with no distinction or dividing line between the two, all finally pulled up to heaven.
那些守割禮的信徒顯然地更關心的是彼得所做的事情（與非猶太人一起吃飯/團契被認為是重大的妥協），而不是神正在對外邦人所做的事情；神透過彼得/路加重複這個故事來強調那些事件的重要性。起初，彼得認為神是講論這些有關食物。但是他開始理解這大布的異象，而且潔淨和不潔淨的動物是與人而不是食物有關的。在某種程度上，這大布代表教會，上面既有「潔淨的」（猶太信徒）又有「不潔淨的」（外邦信徒），兩者之間沒有區別或界線，所有的至終都拉回天上去。
Prayer: Sovereign Lord, many might have missed your crucial point of salvation by trusting Jesus Christ alone. Indeed we do not have to become good first relying upon our own good deed before becoming Christians. Once we become full members of your family, in your eyes no one is inferior to any of others in any way, whether high or low, rich or poor, strong or weak. Thank you. Amen.
禱告: 至高無上的主啊，許多人或許已錯失了你以單單靠頼耶穌基督而得救恩，這決定性的重點。確實，我們成為基督徒之先，沒有必先要成為好的，依靠自己的好行為。我們一旦成為你家裡正式的成員時，感謝你在你眼中沒有人比起其他任何人，在任何情況下是次要較差的，不論是高或低，富或貧，強或弱。阿們。
