Scripture: Acts 10:44-48<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Today our scripture passage is a continuation of the preaching we heard from Peter in the lesson from Acts on Easter Day. You\u2019ll remember that on Easter we heard the story of Peter preaching the Good News to the Gentiles at Cornelius\u2019 home. (For more detailed background read Acts 10:34-43 and\/or the \u201cNotation for This Week\u2019s Scripture from the Easter Day Acts lesson on LPTW.) Today\u2019s passage picks up from where we left off. Peter has preached the birth, baptism, teaching, miracles, death, and resurrection of our Lord when, suddenly, the Holy Spirit interrupts him by giving the gift of belief to all who were hearing the Word. As Peter and his followers who accompanied him witness this beautiful exchange of the Spirit they are taken aback, because they have witnessed the Spirit giving of itself freely to Gentiles, just as with the Jews. At this realization, Peter asks the key question: \u201cCan anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?\u201d Thus, the people at Cornelius\u2019 home are baptized on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scripture: John 15:9-17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n God\u2019s love: God\u2019s love for us, enabling us to love God. God\u2019s joy in us making joy complete. We are invited into this vast collaboration of love, invited to be part of God\u2019s team, considered friends, no longer servants. God has, so to speak, looked each one of us in the eye and said, \u201cYou did not choose me but I chose you.\u201d Chosen, by God, to bear the fruit of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Acts Lesson Plans: Baptism is for All Scripture: Acts 10:44-48 Today our scripture passage is a continuation of the preaching we heard from Peter in the lesson from Acts on Easter Day. You\u2019ll remember that on Easter we heard the story of Peter preaching the Good News to the Gentiles at Cornelius\u2019 home. 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