What happens when the gospel is relayed from one world to another and a Christian community is born in a new culture? How does the dynamism of the gospel reshape the culture that accepts it? How does that culture enrich the gospel with new ways of self-expression? From Jerusalem to Antioch looks for answers to those questions by studying the earliest stage of the journey of the gospel to the ends of the earth, the stage that brought it from the Jewish world of Jerusalem to the Hellenistic world of Antioch the stage that saw the founding of the first Christian community. It presents the results of modern research on the church of Jerusalem and the church of Antioch. Parallel chapters discuss the historical origins the way in which they presented the Christian message and their distinctive patterns of worship, teaching and organization.