Prejudice

Prejudice
Acts 9:43
“Peter stayed in Joppa for some time with a tanner named Simon.”

A most interesting verse!
The number one preventative and killer of cross cultural mission is prejudice by people who can give evidence that they are not prejudiced.
Acts 10 gives the reason why the apostles had not gone to the world even though Jesus had asked them to do so 14 years previously: they were prejudiced.
Peter would be reprimanded by God over his thoughts of the Gentiles and the subsequent family conversion of the Italian family changed all that.
The reason why this was so shocking to Peter was that he didn’t think he was prejudiced. This verse shows how he stayed in the home of a tanner named Simon. The tanner worked with the skin of dead animals making him ceremonially unclean and Peter is with him. If anyone asked Peter if he was prejudiced he would say NO. And so would many people. Not many admit to being prejudiced. But many prejudge others without knowing their story first.