The first local church did not leave all of these newly converted people to fend for themselves spiritually but they were encouraged and taught by Barnabas that forming themselves into a local church there was the God-ordained, God-appointed thing to do. This was how they would “continue” with the Lord, as it says in verse 23. And in verse 26 we find that when Barnabas had found Saul, he brought him to Antioch, and they assembled with the church there and taught a great many people. These people were true disciples because they were living their Christian lives following Christ and apostolic teaching. And therefore, this is where the disciples were first called Christians. They had made profession of faith in the initial time of their conversion to Christ, but they also continued on to prove and establish the truth of their profession of faith, by living the life of a Christian. They didn’t go their own way, living their lives apart from any church, but they joined the church in Antioch, and assembled with them regularly and walked together with each other in the context of this local church.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
