As part of our Association Sunday we have David Cameron from Carr Baptist Church preaching for us

Barnabas and Saul, sent out from the church in Antioch, travel first to Cyprus where an encounter with a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet whose message has just enough truth in it to snare the ear of a Roman proconsul teaches them two lessons:

• We must never see Christ as a means to an end
• We must be all things to all men to save some

It’s often assumed that Acts 12:25-13:3 marks Paul’s call into missionary activity. However the truth is that he had been working as a missionary for over a decade. This is not the beginning of missionary work, this is the beginning of an unprecedented period of growth in the Church. That growth is …

• Growth out of Preparation
• Growth through Apprenticeship
• Growth by Sacrifice

Acts 12:1-24 is both a profound wound to the church, and a glorious victory for the church, as …

• One Dies
• One Lives
• One is Lost