that characterizes chapters 1–12 and the source of formal, planned missionary activity that will dominate chapters 13–28. The church at Antioch, then, functions as the hinge between the two main divisions of the book of Acts, even though Luke does not mention this church before chapter 11 or after chapter 15. This passage presents not only the first formal and planned missionary activity but also the first time that the Church appoints certain ones to act on behalf of the Church in its missionary