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X chapter 13 verse 4.

So being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Salusha, and from there they sailed to

Cyprus.

So this begins the first missionary journey, Saul and Barnabas leaving Antioch, to proclaim the gospel and plant the church

where the gospel had not been proclaimed and churches had not been planted.

They leave Antioch for this purpose.

This is a picture of a missionary, a missionary journey.

And this is where I want to encourage us to think about our

churches and ask the question, how active are we in our churches in sending out missionaries?

People fill with the Holy Spirit of God,

set apart by the Holy Spirit of God

to proclaim the Gospel and plant the Church where it is not yet gone.

Notice not everybody from Antioch left to do this work.

So God does not call every single follower of Jesus to leave where the gospel has gone and go to where it hasn't gone

At least not in the same way, but he does call us to work together. The whole picture here is the church at Antioch sending out

missionaries to get the gospel supporting those missionaries as they take the gospel

where it is not yet gone. And if there's 2 billion people in the world who have

little to no knowledge of the gospel, then surely in every church God is

calling out some missionaries to go out from that church and get the gospel where it's not yet gone.

And so in our churches we need to be doing exactly what we see here in acts 13, worshipping, fasting, praying, and asking

God, who are you setting apart to go?

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