In these passages, We see how God's will and purpose was carried out by His faithful servants. The Good News of Jesus Christ was delievered to the Gentils and many of them came to know the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. The Jews started to realize that God's love and grace was not limited to them but reached out to all the people whom God chose to elect. With that new understaning and conviction, the Jews especially the leaders worked hard to spreading the Good New and help them by teaching and supporting grow in their faith.
We also read in versus 26, the diciples were called Christians first at Antioch. This verse reminded me if you are a Chritian, you are God's disciple. The vital role of God's disciples is to make disciples. Let hearts to be stirred by today's paasage.
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thanks for your reflection, kwijung. we are told in this passage that barnabas brought saul to antioch and together the two stayed for a whole year, teaching and discipling the new converts. in this way, they strengthened the antioch church as a whole.
it is essential that new converts be discipled and taught. so many people, after an initial conversion experience, fail to receive good teaching from God's Word that would ground them and establish them in the truth. such christians are easily defeated when they meet with difficulties, and their faith wavers. our conversion, however dramatic it may have been, is NEVER enough. we need to be firmly established in God's Truth or we will be overwhelmed when hardship and difficulties come our way.
the antioch church was firmly established in the truth through the teaching of saul and barnabas and was no doubt able to remain faithful to Jesus during the storms of persecution and tribulation that they would inevitably face.
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