This week we go back to Sunday’s message, look behind the sermon, and build it into the week.

“Ask not what your country can do for you…” Kennedy’s line still lands. The gospel starts with what God has done for us—but as we grow, we start asking a harder question: What can we do for God? In Acts 13, Paul and Barnabas preach in Pisidian Antioch. Some Jews receive the word with joy. Others push back. Then the Gentiles lean in, and the message that began in Israel starts moving outward.

That was always the plan. God called Abraham so that the nations would be blessed. Rahab is welcomed in. The Law made room for the foreigner. Israel was meant to be a light that drew people in. Too often they built walls instead. After the resurrection the method changes: Jesus sends His people out. The church first stayed clustered together. Persecution scattered them. Then God called people like Paul to carry salvation to the Gentiles—still through Jewish streets at first, then farther.

God is still doing that work. We often talk as if “the ends of the earth” is somewhere we have to fly. In many ways, we are the ends of the earth. The center of gravity of global Christianity has shifted south. Mission trips still matter. Staying put and reaching the people already around your table, street, and city also matters. You do not have to leave home to be part of what God is doing.

Come back to the sermon. Look behind it. Then build it into Monday through Saturday.

Listen to the Sunday message, then use this episode to press it into your week. Join us at The Table—Sundays at 9:00 and 10:30 a.m. More at thetablecc.com.