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MISSIONS BEGIN Week 41: Paul’s Travels: 1st Missionary Journey (Acts 10 – 15; Galatians) Antioch was the 3rd largest Week Forty-One Reading Plan city in the Roman Empire with about half a million Acts 11:1-30 Gospel in Antioch people. It is where believers Acts 12:25-13:52 Missionaries Barnabas & Saul (Paul) Sent from Antioch were first called Christians. Acts 14:1-28 Mission Tour through Asia Minor Paul’s three missionary Acts 15:1-35 Jerusalem Council and the Place of the Law for Non-Jews journeys began in Antioch. Galatians 1:1-2:21 Law is not Part of the Gospel The church there continued to grow faith which impacted Galatians 3:1-4:7 Life of Faith the world for Christ for Galatians 5:1-6:10 Christian Liberty Led by the Spirit centuries. Fourteen years after Saul’s conversion, the Antioch church commissioned him and Barnabas as missionaries. Thus began the first of what is called the 3 missionary journeys of Paul. The first journey lasted about 2 years (47-48AD), and was the shortest—distance and time wise. Saul and Barnabas, accompanied by John Mark, set out from Antioch for Cyprus. They then went to Turkey, landing at Attalia. They proceeded inland along the military road in Asia Minor. At Perga, John Mark left them. Saul and Barnabas then stopped at Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe, all in the province of Galatia, before retracing their steps to revisit the congregations they had founded earlier. This first mission trip confirmed Paul as a leader in spreading the gospel of sins forgiven through Jesus Christ to the non-Jews. It also gave him credibility when he met with the council in Jerusalem to discuss what relationship Judaism and Christianity had with each other. Chapter Chapter 1 GALATIANS – Works vs. Faith 6 1—2 3—4 5—6 PAUL’S AUTHORITY JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH CHRISTIAN LIBERTY personal narrative doctrinal emphasis practical application Truth of the apostle Failure of legalism Power of the Holy Spirit Freeness of the Gospel Freedom from legalism Freedom to love and to serve 1:1-5 Greeting 3:1-9 Faith or Works 5:1-15 Free from the law 1:6-10 Misconstruing the gospel 3:10-14 Righteous shall live by faith 5:16-25 Walk in the Spirit 1:11-21 Paul’s backstory 3:15-29 Belief or Law 6:1-5 Free to help others 2:1-10 True Gospel affirmed 4:1-20 Heirs through Christ 6:6-10 Free to be generous 2:11-21 Correction given 4:21-31 Bondage or Freedom 6:11-18 Conclusion Paul sent this passionate letter, written about 49AD, from Antioch to Gentile believers being harassed by Judaizers who were insisting that they must be circumcised to be saved. Paul had established churches in Galatia during his first missionary journey. The key word for the book is faith. The key verse is Galatians 2:16. One sentence summary: People are justified by trusting Christ’s righteousness alone, not by keeping the law or by their good works. THE JOURNEYS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL Fill in the four routes of the journeys that Paul took in the thirty years covered by Luke in the Book of Acts. Paul’s early travels are a little bit sketchy, but starting with the first missionary journey, you may enjoy charting his 1,500-mile, 3,000-mile, 3,300-mile missionary trips around the Roman Empire sharing the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, with a final 2,300-mile sea journey as a prisoner to Rome. Each journey is represented by a color. Several places were visited more than once making them more colorful! Rome ippi THRACE BITHYNIA & PONTUS Three Taverns Phil Forum of Appius ea Neopolis Amphipolis Ber ThessalonicaApollonia Samothrace Puteloi MACEDONIA MYSIA CAPPADOCIA Troas Adriatic Aegean Assos GREECE ASIA Sea Sea Mitylene GALATIA Antioch in Pisidia LYCAONIA CHIOS Iconium Lystra ACHAIA Ephesus PISIDIA Rhegium Derbe Tarsus Athens SAMOS Corinth CILICIA Miletus Cenchrea Perga PAMPHYLIA PHRYGIA Attalia LYCIA Syracuse OS Myra C Cnidus Patara MALTA RHODES Salamis Antioch CRETE Seleucia Paul’s Early Travels (Acts 9, 11; Gal. 1:17) Salmone Paphos Phoenix Lasea Fair Haven CYPRUS Paul’s 1st Missionary Journey (Acts 13:1-14:28) SYRIA AD CAUDA —with Barnabas and John Mark (47-48 ; 1,500 miles) Sidon Tyre Paul’s 2nd Missionary Journey (15:36-18:22) Ptolemais —with Silas, Timothy, Luke, Priscilla & Aquila PHOENICIA Damascus (50-52AD; 3,000 miles) Caesarea Paul’s 3rd Missionary Journey (18:23-21:16) JUDEA N Jerusalem —with Timothy, Luke & others (52-57AD; 3,300 miles) MEDITERRANEAN SEA ARABIA Paul’s trip to Rome (Acts 21:17-28:31) —with Julius and Aristarchus (58-62AD; 2,300 miles) EGYPT.