[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I would set it up in Bixby Ok. That's the point. People know me here, I'm comfortable here, if I had the keys the Jesus gave me, it wouldn't matter where, so I would go where I was comfortable, not among people I consider enemies.

Beclu

[SoothingDave]

My point was that, especially in a world without all of our high tech communications, that one who wanted to take the message to all the peoples in the world, would need to set up where all the peoples came and went - the capital.

SD

[trad_anglican]

I would set it up in Bixby Ok. That's the point. People know me here, I'm comfortable here, if I had the keys the Jesus gave me, it wouldn't matter where, so I would go where I was comfortable, not among people I consider enemies.

Remember Jesus' great commission? To the ends of the earth. With the church established in Jerusalem, there was no need for Peter or any of the others to stay there.

[al_c]

so I would go where I was comfortable

But we're not called to go and do comfortable things. Did Jesus hang out in Nazareth for 33 years? Nope ... he went out to all the places where opposition was the rule.

Preaching to the choir does no good.

[malakhi]

I would set it up in Bixby Ok. That's the point. People know me here, I'm comfortable here, if I had the keys the Jesus gave me, it wouldn't matter where, so I would go where I was comfortable, not among people I consider enemies.

Can anything good come from Bixby? ;o)

If Jesus wanted to set up a church centered in Rome, why did he choose to grow up in Galilee?