<p>11:22 - see on Acts 8:1.</p><p><em>And the report concerning them came to the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem</em>- The metaphor of the body is used for the local church, rather than the global body of Christ. It seems Paul's extended usage of the metaphor has the same reference.</p><p><i>And they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch<em>- </em></i>The Jerusalem ecclesia told Barnabus to go only as far as Antioch; he didn&rsquo;t tell them how wrong they were to boss him around. He went beyond Antioch to Tarsus, took Paul, and then went down to Antioch (:22,25). In the end, whilst we must respect those who deserve it, we are personal servants of the Lord who died for us, and we must follow Him according to our personal conscience. The lesson from this is that we should seek to be as positive as possible in the midst of this tension between right and left- especially in the way we write or speak about the problems. We should seek to move the Gospel forward, whatever unhappy disagreements there are between those already baptized.</p>