What God has made clean, you are not to call profane. One of the hurdles the young Christian community had to overcome was carrying out the command of Jesus of making disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19). Christianity was born among the Jewish people, a people who already were steeped in an idea of God (and religion for that matter) that was much similar to the one they were trying to propagate. It was going to be easy to make disciples from the immediate Jewish community because they were already familiar with the demands of a monotheistic religion. As a matter of fact, Christianity at this moment in time was seen as a sect within Judaism. However, it was not going to be the same story once the disciples decided to cross the ethnic boundary. How were they to make this new “religion” appealing to a people who had been considered “outsiders” and unworthy of religion? How were they to make Christianity inclusive (as opposed to the exclusivity of its parent religion, Judaism) without compromising its values? As the disciples were soon finding out, this wasn’t going to be a mean feat. Selling Christianity to the Gentiles wasn’t going to be easy. But I believe they were more surprised to realize that the first hurdle they had to overcome was from within. Some conservative members of the Christian community (circumcised believers) were apparently not happy with the step Peter took of entering the house of a gentile, uncircumcised believer. In his defense, Peter reminds that he too had shared in their belief and had himself taken such a stance until he was “converted” through a vision. In the vision, Peter is reminded that continuing to hold their conservative view was not only a retrogression but was also nullifying what God had accomplished in Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ, God had broken the walls of division and gathered the human race into one family. In Jesus Christ, there was no longer a Jew or gentile, a slave or free person (Galatians 3:28). Although the Jews were the first to be called, Jesus’ mission was extended to all (John 10:16). After all, this was the very message that the disciples were charged with disseminating to the ends of the earth: that in Jesus Christ, God has reconciled the universe to Godself. In Jesus Christ, God had re-created the universe and made it new (clean).