The Bible Study Hour
with Dr. James Boice
Christians First at Antioch
Friday, December 12, 2025
Everyone knows the name "Christian," but where was it first used? Believers were first called Christians in a sophisticated, tolerant, and corrupt city; a business power where all the wealth of the East passed through on its way to Rome, Antioch in Syria. There Barnabas saw what God was doing and introduced Paul to the church.
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