Sermon for April 10th, 2016

We must read acts through a lens of moving from individual to community, which is what they were trying to do. This is hard for us...because we are an individualistic society (like Jerusalem and Rome).

Repentance = admitting in a self-centric, try-harder, individualistic culture (Pharisees and Americans) that we can't do it on our own.

Repentance, metanoia, is not changing one's actions. It is changing one's mind, changing the way you think.

How do you go from 120 to 3,000? Notice that Peter is not preaching inside the temple. Have to go where the thousands are.