Do you have a Jerusalem AND a Rome? Acts 19-20

Acts 19:21
Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Do you have a Rome and a Jerusalem?   In the above text you couldn't have two cities farther apart in belief and philosophy of life.   Paul knew both.   Jerusalem was the bedrock of Judaism and Paul was raised and schooled in all respects of the Old Testament.   Rome was the bedrock of Greek philosophy and, inferred from Acts 17 when Paul was on Mars Hill, Paul was schooled in the beliefs and structure of Greek thought.  Jerusalem was old school; Rome was new school.   Jerusalem was the birth of Christianity; Rome would become the furtherance of Christianity.  Paul wanted to go to Jerusalem in time of Pentecost to renew his commitment to the church and his ties to the beliefs founded in the O.T. but realized in the new.  Paul wanted to go to Rome because he saw there the avenue to expand Christianity. He saw the challenge, no doubt, but also the fruit that could be had.  He will later get to Rome, albeit not as he would like: In chains.   But, he had a Rome.   He had a vision for Christ and the expansion of Christianity and the Church.   Do we have our own Jerusalem and Rome?  Do we have a bedrock of our faith we want to visit and ALSO a place we want to take that faith?  Have we forgotten our Jerusalem?  Have we lost sight of our Rome?    God has placed in our hearts a desire for Him.  He wants us to cultivate that and move His mission and plan forward.  Paul was a driving force to move Christianity forward both because God put it in his heart and he cultivated it. He was willing to hang onto the good things of Jerusalem and also see the possibility for things in Rome.