We arrive at chapter 13 where the ministry of the church takes on a new shape. Men are selected, empowered by the Spirit, and sent out. We can recognize that he church is made of many parts with differing gifts; Jew, Gentile, men, women, free, and slaves. These men were ministering to NKJV (OR) worshiping the Lord NLT and all of a sudden… God gave a word of prophecy which directed the ministry beyond Antioch. Under Peter & persecution the Gospel spread north out of Jerusalem. Now God was going to use Paul to take it to the western world.