Acts 11:25-27
11:25 Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to look for Saul,
11:26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch.
So
for a whole year Barnabas and Saul
met with the church and taught a significant number of people.
Now it was in Antioch
that the disciples were first called Christians.
Famine Relief for Judea
11:27 At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Acts 15:35
15:35 But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch,
teaching and proclaiming (along with many others)
the word of the Lord.
Romans 12:6-7
12:6 And we have different gifts
according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.
12:7 If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;
Romans 12:1
Consecration of the Believer’s Life
12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.
Colossians 1:28-29
1:28 We proclaim him by instructing
and teaching
all people
with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature
in Christ.
1:29 Toward this goal
I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully
works in me.
Colossians 1:24-25
1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,
Ephesians 4:11
4:11 It was he
who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
Ephesians 4:1
Live in Unity
4:1 I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,
Ephesians 5:20
5:20 always giving thanks to God the Father for each other
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,