The Weekend Pulpit: What Ever Happened to That Church?

Enjoying the Journey

Scott Pauley

Non-profit, Business, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This message focuses on how the gospel advances—not by human programs alone but by healthy, grace-filled local churches—and unpacks five practical, biblical truths to help churches and believers continue in faithful mission. The testimony of the church at Antioch endures. It is a testimony to the grace of God. Join Scott Pauley's study through Scripture this year. Find resources for every book of the Bible by Dr. Pauley and Enjoying the Journey at enjoyingthejourney.org/journey-through-scripture/.Whether you're a new believer or have walked with the Lord for years, you'll find thousands of free devotionals, Bible studies, audio series, and Scripture tools designed to strengthen your faith, deepen your understanding of the Bible, and help you stay rooted in the Word of God. Explore now at EnjoyingTheJourney.org.Extend the Work Enjoying the Journey provides every resource for free worldwide. If you would like to help extend this Bible teaching, you may give at enjoyingthejourney.org/donations/

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0:00.0	There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.
0:10.0	Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.
0:16.0	Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-linked Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry.
0:24.6	These messages were recorded live in a local church or a gospel event in recent days.
0:30.0	It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today. Would you find your Bible and go with me please in the New Testament to the book of Acts?
0:51.8	It'll be easy to find.
0:53.6	It follows the four gospel records and it really shows you the advancement of the gospel.
0:58.6	How does the gospel advance in this world?
1:01.7	The gospel in advance in this world through man's strategies and programs and resources.
1:09.5	The gospel advances in this world through the local New Testament church.
1:15.2	Occasionally I'm in meetings where there's a large venue and lots of people, and I enjoy that.
1:21.1	I really do enjoy that, but I have come increasingly to a deep abiding conviction that if the
1:26.6	work of God is going to get done the way Jesus said for it to get done,
1:30.2	it's going to take local churches like the one I'm preaching to tonight.
1:34.4	And I really believe that when you come to the Book of Acts, the church that we've been studying this week,
1:40.2	the Church of Antioch, is really the Holy Spirit's model for what that ought to look like.
1:46.7	It really is the advancing church.
1:49.8	Now, when we left off last night, we left off in Acts chapter number 13.
1:54.2	Look at it with me just for a second.
1:55.5	We won't preach all this again.
1:57.6	But we studied the first four verses of Acts chapter 13 because this is where they sent out
2:02.7	the first foreign missionaries, if you will, and that was Paul and Barnabas. And of course,
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