Acts 11:19-13:3
Key Verse: 13:3

* THE BIRTH OF THE ANTIOCH CHURCH (11:19-30)

1. What happened to the believers after Stephen's martyrdom? Where did they go? (19) What kind of city was Antioch? Why did they speak; only to Jews?

2. What did some of them do? (20) Why? What happened? (21) What can we learn here?

3. What did the church in Jerusalem do when they heard about the work of God in Antioch? Why were they concerned? (11:2)

4. Who was Barnabas? (4:36,37; 9:27) When he arrived, what did he see? How did he respond? What did he do? How did God use him? (24)

5. What did he do to help the growing church? (25) Why? What can we learn from him? What did Barnabas and Paul do? Why did worldly people call them "Christians"? (26)

6. What was the crisis that occurred throughout the Roman Empire? What did the disciples in Antioch do in this time of need? What does this show about them? (2 Cor.8:9; Ac.20:35) In what ways was the Antioch church well-fitted to be a world mission church?

* HEROD'S DEATH (12:1-25)

7. What was going on with believers in Jerusalem while the grass roots work of world evangelism was beginning in Antioch? (12:1-19a)

8. What happened to Herod? (12:19b-23) What do these events show about God's sovereign control of history? About the men who were the. real leaders of the world?

* A MISSIONARY SENDING CHURCH (13:1-3)

9. Who were the leaders in the church in Antioch? Why did they decide to send out missionaries? Who did they send? Why might it have been hard for them to send these men?

10. What does this teach us about God's world mission purpose? About God himself? What must be our attitude toward Jesus' command in 1:8?