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Are you Drawn in or are you indifferent…
Acts Chapter 13 and 14 Study
Introduction
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Saul’s/Paul’s first missionary journey.
Now in , we will see Saul begin to be called Paul, a name that will be used for him through the remainder of the book of Acts.
Paul and Barnabas reached out to the island of Cyprus and also a mainland region known as Galatia, now part of central Turkey.
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Doesn’t that one get you going?
This is probably my favorite one of the ones we will show today and definitely the most spiritual.
I am totally drawn in my brother would be drawn in but my wife…not so much.
I am totally drawn in my brother would be drawn in but my wife…not so much.
Volkswagon: My Grandfather would have been indifferent…would not buy a German car because of the war.
Avocado…I know some of you would love this…but I am indifferent…not against it but just not bought in.
We are all drawn into to different things…This is a natural thing.
When it comes to cars, music, art, hobbies, or style being indifferent about these things really does not matter.
As a matter of fact it is probably healthy to be indifferent about certain things.
This is fine when it comes to material things or things that are temporary.
This is fine when it comes to material things or things that are temporary.
None of this is going to change your life…so it is totally fine to be indifferent
Barnabas and Saul Sent from Antioch
None of this is going to change your life…
However it is different when it comes to the questions Jesus ask….the
answer or the attitude to what you think about Jesus will change your whole life.
For the first time, a local church took the initiative to send representatives out on a Christian mission.
So before anything lets take a look at the Antioch Church that was sending out these missionaries for the first time.
What makes them a sending church and what can we learn from them?
In our passage Jesus asks are you drawn in or indifferent.
Its a familiar passage and the meaning could be applied to evangelism but it is also very applicable to what happens in the life of a believer after Jesus has been presented to us.
The Antioch church was made up of new Christians.
Its members could still easily remember their days before Christ.
They still reveled in the novelty of grace.
When first-century Jews came to faith in Jesus, they came to know their God more fully.
In contrast, the Gentiles in Antioch were coming to know the true God for the first time.
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What does he want them and us to understand?
Because their faith was still fresh, it had not yet had opportunity to solidify into rigid forms.
The Antioch church was made up of world-conscious Christians.
It had been founded by missionaries (see 11:20); these early witnesses helped to shape the outward-looking vision of the Antioch group.
“Listen!
A farmer went out to plant some seeds.
4 As he scattered them across his field, some seeds fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate them.
5 Other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock.
The seeds sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow.
6 But the plants soon wilted under the hot sun, and since they didn’t have deep roots, they died.
7 Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants.
8 Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!
9 Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand.”
What does he want them to understand?
The Antioch church was made up of generous Christians.
They had manifested this by sending a love offering to those in Jerusalem who were potentially facing famine (see 11:27–30).
The Antioch church was also made up of obedient Christians.
When God spoke, they heard and obeyed.
Spiritually Drawn in will save your life.
After seeking the will of God and receiving the mission they laid hands on them and sent them away with their blessing.
It would have been easy for these Christians to selfishly hold on to Paul and Barnabas…however God blessed them with an understanding that they must be about mission.
Spiritually Drawn in will save your life.
Because of this obedience at one time the Area of Turkey, Iraq etc…was over 90% Christian…it is now less than 1% Christian in this area.
There are 4 responses talked about here When God is leading…we speak ever week in hopes that people respond by being drawn in….
I spiritually break down with indifference…I spiritual breakthrough with drawn in.
How do you think this Changed?
Drawn in over indifferent will save you life.
Do you think America could suffer a similar fate?
4 responses
How might a modern day American church imitate the Antioch Church?
The Path...Hard Hearted Indifferent…
In the end Christianity will not disappear because of outside forces it will be for lack of mission oriented followers of Jesus.
Shallow Soil...Initially drawn in but become indifferent…Hard Hearted underneath..
The Thorns...They say yes to God but they live no.
More emotion than devotion.My Kingdom…God’s Kingdom is s close second….they
allow life to interfere with growth.
The Good Soil....Reproducing…this soil is about loathing indifference
Which one are you?
Ministry at Cyprus
It is believed that Barnabas had grown up on this island (see ).
He would have been familiar with its terrain and people.
Cyprus was an island province in the Mediterranean Sea.
It was known for its copper mines, its shipbuilding industry, and its perfect weather.
It was also an island full of pagan people.
Its goddess was Venus, the goddess of love.
Next week we are going to look at 3 and 4
Luke does not give much information about the missionaries’ visit to the city of Salamis on the eastern side of Cyprus.
All he says is that … they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues (13:5a).
Why doesn’t Luke tell us more?
For the remainder of today lets talk about the path and rocky…
The thing these two have in common is they breed indifference.
This is kind of a normal thing for Luke in His writings…no one really has a great answer for this….other
than all Luke wanted to communicate was that they actually did preach in this area.
Between Salamis and Paphos, also on the island of Cyprus, Paul and Barnabas traveled through the whole island ().
Did they move nonstop (a distance of about ninety miles), or did they pause en route to preach?
Perhaps Luke wanted to avoid the possibility of boring his readers with too much detail.
So what does indifference cost you?
The truth is that spiritual indifference will cost you everything.
Spiritual indifference will cost you your life.
It’s possible that Luke himself had never heard the details of those particular days.
In any case, he took his account quickly to Paphos (13:6).
There, in the Roman provincial capital, Barnabas and Paul met the Roman proconsul (governor), Sergius Paulus (13:7).
(If Luke’s first readers lived in Rome and potentially were needing reliable information about Paul, then this early positive encounter with a Roman official could prove helpful to Paul’s cause.
It did not hurt matters that Luke called the governor an intelligent man.)
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