The gospel invites us to see each person as uniquely gifted by God and to embrace that gift. Like the children who took the cutthroat game of balloon stomping and made it a way for everyone to participate and to have fun, the gospel invites us to lay aside our need to be right, our desire to prove the other person wrong, to be better than another or more acceptable to God and to say simply, God loves each of us uniquely. Isn't it interesting that Acts addresses all of the things that still threaten and divide us both locally and on a global level. Those who speak only Spanish tend to have less power than those who can speak English. Around the globe language remains a significant point of conflict.
Economic differences continue to create a pecking order.
It is interesting that at nearly every social gathering it won't be long before the conversation turns to occupation and everyone in the conversation is determining economic pecking order based on employment. For most people a stay at home mom isn't as interesting as a medical doctor and yet both spend all day trying to care for people. A second grade teacher won't get the same attention as a university professor who has authored two books on international relations. And yet the second grade teacher probably settles more disputes in a day than the professor does in a decade. It has at least something to do with the salaries they draw.