Acts 11 moves in two directions at once. In Jerusalem, Peter defends what God did in Cornelius's house—and the church, to its credit, responds with worship. In Antioch, the gospel is already doing something no one planned, and no one could have stopped. A cosmopolitan port city on the edge of the empire becomes the unlikely birthplace of the Gentile mission, the first genuinely multi-ethnic church, and the place where followers of Jesus are first called Christians. This sermon looks at what made the unlikely church of Antioch extraordinary—and asks whether we are willing to be that kind of church.

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