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SOAY SCHOOL LESSON THE FIRST GENTILE CHURCH - International Sunday School Lesson for February 5, 1950 Memory Selection: "In Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians." Acts 11: 26. Lesson Text: Acts 11: 19-26; 13: 1-3. In the Book of Acts, Luke, after telling the story of Saul's conversion and his experiences in Damascus and Jerusalem, reverts back in point of time to recount the early spread of the Christian faith. ' The persecution which followed Stephen's death resulted in adherents of the new faith being "scattered abroad", the disciples fleeing to vari ous cities, including Antioch, where they preached the new gospel. How ever, at this time, they confined their missionary efforts to their own race, speaking the word to none save on ly the Jews." Antioch, in Assyria had been founded three centuries before on the ' Orontes River. It was the third city in the world, with a population of ' half a million, and the terminal of rich caravans from Persia and India. - It was modem for its day, having a splendid and adequate water system, and its main street, five miles long, was wonaenuny iigniea oy mgnt tna . travelers by day were sheltered from . the sun, by its arcades. However, .. morally the city was disreputable; the Roman Juvenal, criticising the evn in Rome, said 'The Syrian Orontes has flowed into the Tiber." Regardless of its evil practices and " reputation, Antioch is known as the second birthplace of Christianity, Here it was that the word was first intentionally preached to the Gentiles by Jew having broad cosmopolitan outlook. These were natives of Cy prus and Cyrene, having lived abroad and broken somewhat with the strict racial code of their brothers in (Pales tine. In their activity these Jews "spake unto the Greeks also." Even tually news of this development came to the Jewish Christians in Jerusalem and caused somewhat of a discussion there. Up to this time the gospel had not been directed particularly to the Gen tiles. True, it was that Peter had previously been to Caeseraand receiv ed the centurion Cornelius into the faith, which act had been approved at Jerusalem, but no. general effort had been made to reach others than Jews. The Jerusalem Christians, some what concerned about the reports from Antioch, decided to investigate and wisely selected Barnabas for this purpose. He was a Leyite, a native of Cyprus, and his character is amply attested in the commentary that "he was a good man." Barnabai" went to .Antioch and was so impressed with the activity there that he remained nd took part in it Remembering Saul of - Tarsus, who some seven or eight years ago he had ' vouched for in Jerusalem, and realiz ing that this was the type of man for . the particular service needed, mrna bas set out for Tarsus in an effort to seek Saul. "During these years Saul bad been waiting; pexuaps some times questioning why, but, neverthe less, undergoing a'- period- of prepa ration by working in Cilcia for the wider and greater mission winch he was to undertake. It was at Antioch that the term "Christians" was first applied to the followers of Jesus. " This -name Was self -assuming because they usually referred to : themselves as : "saints", "disciples," "believers" or "those of the way" " The title was not given them by the Jews, because they were accustomed to refer to the Christians as "Nazarenas," remembering th question whether any good - thing could come from that city. I he prob ability is that the Gentiles, perhaps in derision, first began using the term "Christians"., for those belieelng In the new faith.: I NOT DEAD...BUT SLEEPING 2r 5 1 We know a nan who says, "When you're dead, you're dead." Wonder what he would think of this picture? This is a picture of thins that im Haf. Barren trees, shrubs laden with snow, and a .muiion oiaaes ox trass buried beneath tha inter s mantle. But we know these thitura ara nnt AmA . . Jttit Sleepinc. Waitin for another finrina- . . . waiting to blossom and flourish again. And it is that knowladca that anaM.a to ee beauty in a winter scene; how morbid our picture if we didn't know that Snrlnv would'come again. The Christian belief in a life hw i. vital to man's haDolnata and eanran. U u one of the many truths our Churches teach Which can enrich your life. 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