Alva Review-Courier -

I have never seen moods and minds change as they did when a rural Indiana town discovered there was going to be a landfill in their area. Everyone in this community wanted a landfill, but not in their back yards. Their attitude was contingent upon the context. Everyone desired a place to dump their garbage as long as it was someplace else. The context surrounding the landfill was what really mattered to the people.

Peter encountered a similar situation in Acts chapters 10-11. Jesus told Peter and the other apostles to “be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even t...