This week in The Gospel Project®
for Kids, our journey takes us along with Paul on his first missionary
journey. This journey began in Antioch of Syria—the third-largest city
in the Roman empire, after Rome and Alexandria. The Holy Spirit was
working in the Antioch church and led the believers there to send out
Paul and Barnabas on a journey to preach. The church obeyed, and Paul
and Barnabas went out.
Remember
that at one time Paul had devotedly persecuted Christians. Now Paul was
a missionary, someone who obeys God’s call to go and tell others the
good news about Jesus. Paul and Barnabas traveled to several cities and
all over the island of Cyprus, telling everyone about Jesus.
In
each city, they went first into the synagogues to tell the Jewish
people about Jesus. Some of the Jews believed, but some of them were
angry at Paul and Barnabas and rejected the truth about Jesus. In some
places, the Jews made plans to kill Paul! So Paul and Barnabas went to
the Gentiles, the non-Jews. This was the purpose to which God had called
Paul. (See Acts 9:15.) When the Gentiles heard the gospel, many of them
believed. The gospel is not for a select group of people; it is for
everyone! If Paul had not taken the gospel to the Gentiles, many of us
might not be believers today.
Paul
obeyed the Holy Spirit’s call to tell the world about Jesus. Many of
the Jews rejected the Messiah, so Paul shared the gospel with the
non-Jews. Many of them believed in Jesus. God uses people to tell others
about Jesus so that people all over the world can be saved from their
sin by trusting in Jesus as Lord and Savior.
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