You remember the rabbit ear and tennis.

You had to move that thing until you connected with the signal that got you a clear picture.

Dr. Tony Evans talks about getting tuned in to God's calling for your life.

Worship is positioning yourself to be able to leave in to the Holy Spirit's signal.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

The busyness of life can distract us from the things that are really important, not the least of which is our destiny.

Today, Dr. Evans continues his examination of the connection between our worship and our calling and directs us to those things that can help us tune in to our God-given destiny.

Let's join him as he begins.

Acts chapter 13, if you'll open your Bibles.

The first four verses helps us to prepare to hear God.

If you are pursuing your calling, then you want to hear him when he calls.

You want to hear the phone ring.

You want to know it's him on the other side of the line.

You want to hear his calling.

There are three concepts in this passage that we want to look at.

The context for this calling, the content, and then the conduit that were involved in this calling of Paul and Barnabas to the work that God had for them to do.

It says, now, there was an Antioch in the church, prophets and teachers.

He named some, Barnabas. He was the son of encouragement, the great encourager.

There was Simeon called Niger.

Niger means black. Simeon was a man of African descent in the Antioch church.

There was Lucius de Cyrene.

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