I stood in the harbour at Antalya, a port on the Mediterranean in southern Turkey. I thought about the history this place holds, the people that have landed there, what that place represents. No doubt, it is a beautiful place, and a natural deep water port used for millennia by shippers, travelers, traders, pirates, armies, dignitaries…

 

This is the place, I thought, where Paul and Barnabas landed on their first missionary journey to Asia Minor in the first century AD. They came to an unfamiliar place, to people that did not know them or the message they brought. They had set out by the early church, motivated to take the Good News to those who had not heard about Jesus. They faced, storm, and danger, opposition, and good reception – they faced the unknown – head on. Wow! They were living an adventure. What must it have been like Read More »