Murderer's Row: The Church Jerusalem Didn't Expect

The church at Antioch starts with a roll call of names nobody in Jerusalem would have chosen: a displaced Levite, Simeon "the black one," a man with a Roman name first-century Jews would have heard as enemy, a foster brother of the king who murdered John the Baptist, and Saul, the persecutor nobody had heard from in a decade. This is a ground-up, grassroots, lay-led explosion of good news, and it looks nothing like what the establishment expected. We walk through Acts 13:1 name by name, trace how each of these leaders got there, and ask what it means when the only people we're willing to follow are the ones the establishment hands us. There is enough hierarchy in the world to last a lifetime. It shouldn't be that way in the community of Christ. Scripture: Acts 13; Acts 4; Acts 7–11; Acts 2:17–18. 0:00 The List (Acts 13:1) 0:34 Roll Call: Barnabas 6:19 The Unlikely Leaders 8:53 A Murderer's Row 9:32 Who Gets to Lead?