A church that knows not the particular needs of its time and place is a church that has not heard the Spirit speaking. The church is marked by the Spirit with an inescapable action and an irrefutable demand—we must do what we can to address the particular needs the Holy One confronts us with. So the Antioch church sends relief to the Judean church by the two most appropriate to speak for them, the two that spoke their difference into existence: Saul and Barnabas.
