Acts 13 Outline 1. The leaders of the church at Antioch send Paul and Barnabas out on a missionary journey under the leading of the Holy Spirit (v. 1-3). 2. They experienced opposition from a sorcerer as they began their missionary work, but Paul rebuked him and a proconsul was saved (v. 4-12). 3. Paul and his group preached the gospel at Antioch in Pisidia as they traveled on their missionary journey (v. 13-41). 4. The missionaries experienced opposition from the Jews and began to preach to the Gentiles, and they saw Jesus save some of the Gentiles (v. 42-52). Overview This chapter chronicles what is often called the first missionary journey. The leadership of the church at Antioch were led by the Holy Spirit to send Paul and Barnabas out to proclaim Jesus. As they traveled to different places and preached the gospel, they encountered opposition and saw people respond to the message. Takeaways 1. There was a plurality of pastoral leadership in the church at Antioch (v. 1). 2. This leadership was a reflection of the growth and maturity of this young church (v. 1). 3. They made decisions through seeking God with prayer and fasting (v. 1-3). 4. Paul’s pattern in his ministry that is recorded in the book of Acts was to go where spiritually interested people were and begin to proclaim the gospel to them (v. 5, 14, 46). 5. Jim Cymbala said something to the effect that the spread of the gospel is marked by “opportunity and opposition,” and I think that is clearly seen in this chapter. 6. Paul contextualized the gospel when he spoke. We see in this chapter and other places in the book of Acts that he started with the Old Testament when he was speaking to Jews, but he sometimes started with different things that would have been more culturally relevant to them when he was speaking to Gentiles. 7. Jesus is our ultimate message and is the only hope for salvation. This was the essence of Paul’s message and should be the church’s message today. 8. We can only come to the Lord because He first chooses us and draws us to Himself. Verse 48b says, “And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.”
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