Paul's & Barnabas Accountability to the Local Church_10 Acts 14:21-28 There is terrible neglect in both evangelism and strengthening the church. Paul and Barnabas spent a long time in Antioch reviving their spirits, and no doubt they were also ministering to the believers.there are two great ministries in the church.The of preaching the gospel and making disciples, and that of strengthening the church. Strengthening and making true disciples of believers are much more difficult than leading them to Christ. The true believer passes through many trials and afflictions while entering into the Kingdom of God. Paul and Barnabas were busy, as busy as they could be moving about and preaching the Word. They were just as busy in following up and strengthening the churches as they had been in establishing them.when Paul and Barnabas returned to the mother church of Antioch.The church was called together for the most glorious missionary meeting imaginable, the very first missionary report ever given to a mother church.Ministers, preachers, and missionaries—all are to be mere instruments in the hand of God.