There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-linked Bible message given through

Scott's pulpit ministry.

These messages were recorded live in a local church or a gospel event in recent days.

It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

We're going to a church tonight.

What church would you like to go to?

You pick. What church? Andioc. All right, let's go to the church at Antioch then. Everybody go to Acts Chapter 13 with me. We were here all day on the Lord's Day. Actually, two chapters previous. Acts Chapter 11 is where we were introduced to the church at Antioch. And I said to you that Antioch really represents

for us what I would like to call the advancing church, and not a church in retreat, but a church

moving forward. And not a church detoured, but a church moving in the right direction. We were

introduced in Acts chapter 11 to this church at Antioch.

The gospel showed up there, and of course many of them believed and were added to the Lord.

God began to work.

I talked to you in the afternoon meeting yesterday about the fact that you saw Christ in that church.

And that's the most important thing in any church.

Not who the preacher is, not how many people are in the pew, but is Christ seen in that church? And somebody really wants to get a hold

of our brother tonight, I'm telling you, it's all right. It's no problem to me. Answer the phone and

tell them we said hello. It's all right you know I was I was preaching

one night this is no joke I was preaching one night in a church and a phone kept going

off kept going off kept going off and I was getting a little little annoyed not because I was

distracted but because it was right in the middle of the sermon, it's a very important part of a

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