The Church in Antioch

Ordination on SermonAudio · Oct 25, 2026 · 26m

Pastor Rockhill opens the first four verses of Acts 13, where the gospel's advance from Jerusalem reaches the thriving church at Antioch. His central burden is to show how God calls, confirms, and sends laborers into His harvest, and how this pattern establishes the ordered, accountable life of Christ's church. Pastor Rockhill walks through the leaders gathered at Antioch—Barnabas, Simeon, Lucius, Menaen, and Saul—noting that the gospel was now crossing geographical, ethnic, and social barriers in fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham. He stresses that Antioch was no independent…