Religion & Spirituality
A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh. Acts 11:26 reminds us that it was “in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians." This is not in Jerusalem where the Apostles and disciples were concentrated, but in Antioch. It is people from Cyprus and Cyrene that began to proclaim the gospel to non-Jewish people. As a result, many believed and the church grew quickly. We owe this identity of being Christians and the missionary movement to what took place in Syria. It is amazing how slow and reluctant the early church was to accept that the kingdom of God is now open to all peoples, languages, and tribes. Even today in the American church there is a great divide and a reluctance to be inclusive of people who are not like us. We are more like the Jerusalem church than the church in Antioch. We need the ministry of Barnabas. He recognized the movement of God and knew how to call Saul into it. And it is from Antioch that the missionary movement truly begins. Let us pray that Eternity will be another Antioch, and we will call one another to take the gospel to the corners of the earth!