When our experience of faith is confined to a single place or among a group of similar people, we can often start to believe that the way God has worked in our lives is the only way God can work. The downside of this is that when come into contact with others in whom God is at work in a different way, we might assume this couldn’t be God’s work. On the other hand, as we engage in mission—going to new places or meeting new kinds of people—and see God working in new and different ways, we gain a much greater appreciation of God’s work in our world. With our expectations of how God works in mission, we tend to try to put God in a box. He has a habit of breaking out of those boxes.

In this sermon, we reflect on how the experience of mission changes our perspective on how God works in the world as seen through Acts 15.