Acts Hymnal
Called Christians in Antioch
Bluegrass gospel · bright, uplifting
WRITTEN 2026-10-12 · AUDIO COMING SOON
About this song
Questions about shared meals open into a larger recognition of God’s work among the nations. The song follows a community learning to receive the same gift across old divisions, and finding a shared identity in Christ.
Lyrics
INTRO
(banjo roll and fiddle)
VERSE 1
They questioned Peter in Jerusalem,
"You ate with Gentile men!"
So he told them of the vision
And the Spirit falling then.
"If God gave them the same gift
That He gave to us before,
Who was I to stand against Him?"
And they argued it no more.
CHORUS
Then to the Gentiles also
God has granted life,
Repentance unto living,
Peace instead of strife;
And in Antioch, in Antioch,
The name first came to be:
They called the disciples Christians,
And that name belongs to me.
VERSE 2
Men of Cyprus and Cyrene
Spoke to Greeks about the Lord;
The Lord's hand was with them,
And a great number turned toward.
Barnabas, a good man, came,
Full of Spirit and of faith,
Then went off to Tarsus
To bring Saul to that place.
CHORUS
VERSE 3
Agabus stood up and prophesied
A famine on the way;
So every one, as each was able,
Gave relief without delay.
They sent it by the hand of Barnabas
And Saul to Judah's poor;
One family across the nations,
That's what Christians are for.
FINAL CHORUS
OUTRO
And that name belongs to me.
From the BennyBeauBallads song catalog. Recordings produced with Suno when available.
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