What is your church like? What sort of people sit in the seats or pews? Acts 16 is an amazing account of the founding of the church at Philippi, there is Lydia a seller of purple and a god-fearer, there is the spirit possessed slave girl and there is the jailer. Then in verse 40 it says Paul and Silas "met with the believers and encouraged them."
The gospel saves rich and religious, the possessed and enslaved and the pagan who is part of a hostile regime. It takes those people and welds them into a community based around the person and work of Jesus. This church is an astonishing display of the miracle of grace.
Are there people I have given up on seeing saved? Well the gospel is able. Are there people we don't try to reach? Well the gospel is a call to love and reach out to all.
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