2 Corinthians 8, opening a short series on generosity: few things unleash grace like it, and at the heart of all grace is a generosity that gave first.
Paul's skill at taking the poets, altars and ideas a city already holds and steeping them in the gospel — meeting a culture where its own thinking runs out.
Following Paul further through Acts, into the trouble that the marketplace and its bad characters stir up for the gospel in a new city.
Acts 16, where the Spirit repeatedly blocks the road until Paul sees a man of Macedonia begging him to come — guidance by closed doors as much as open ones.
Paul proposes returning to every city that rejected, stoned and falsely accused him — and the conflict that proposal causes between him and Barnabas.
Ephesians 2:14-18 on Christ as our peace, with a challenge to stop letting the stage be the star and instead go be the church where you already are.