The disciples are acting strangely because they have experienced the fulfill-ment of those promises. In communicating the gospel, proposi-tional truth and personal experience need to be interwoven like the warp and woof of a piece of cloth. Experience without truth is meaningless. Logical propositions without life-changing experience are irrelevant. The way we present our message has to do with bridging the emotional, spiritual, physical, and cultural distance between ourselves and our neighbors.
Cultural distance involves different ways of seeing the world.
Think of the people you identified in Study 2. Think about the differences between you and the people around you. These differences call for increased intentionality on the part of a local congregation in its missional outreach to those around it. It will be a community of truth. It will be a community that does not live for itself.