The Gentile Mission and Paul's Missionary Expansion

Today’s objectives

1. ·Explain how the Antiochian "outpouring" launched the Gentile mission.
2. ·Describe Paul's first missionary journey and its church planting insights.
3. ·Explain what the missionary council in Jerusalem decided and why it mattered.
4. ·Show how the Holy Spirit directed Paul's second journey toward Macedonia.

Today you learned

• Chapter 8: A powerful move of the Spirit in Antioch launched the Gentile mission; Barnabas and Saul preached on Cyprus and in Asia Minor, planted indigenous churches, and reported back to the sending church.
• Chapter 9: The Spirit-guided council in Jerusalem settled the Gentile Question: people are saved by faith in Christ alone, so Gentiles need not first become Jewish proselytes.
• Chapter 10: The Holy Spirit kept Paul's team out of Asia and Bithynia so He could send them to Macedonia, and the gospel entered Europe at Philippi.

Can you remember?

Open the practice quiz for today’s chapters when you have finished the lessons.