Effective Teaching
Every believer starts out as a baby in Christ. We are immature in our relationship with the Lord, and we don't know much about the Bible. We need to be taught, just like a little baby is taught by his or her parents. Then, after much teaching and training the child becomes mature. If we don't have effective teaching, we never reach our potential for the Lord Jesus and His work. In Antioch the Gentiles began to trust Jesus as Lord and Savior and a church was born. Barnabas was sent to check on the new church. (Acts 11:25,26) After observing God's work, he departed for Tarsus to find Saul. Once he found him, he brought him back to Antioch, and they assembled with the church for a whole year and taught a great many people, And the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch. Let's see what we can learn from this passage. Effective teaching requires the right teacher. Saul was called by God to reach the Gentiles, so God had gifted him to be effective in teaching them...