Acts 17
Tuesday, February 09th, 2010 | Author: Chris

What did you find interesting in today’s reading, Acts 17?

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    Cecile Schooley 
    Tuesday, 9. February 2010

    I love how Paul present the gospel in Athens. Paul personally must have felt like a fish out of water being a Jewish zealot and now a servant of the most high God in a place where idolatry was the norm. Although he is greatly distressed at all the idols he sees, he doesn’t blast the people or shy away from telling them the truth. He uses their idols as a spring board to tell them about the one true God. Like Jesus always does he met them where they were. Very cool!

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    john pop 
    Tuesday, 9. February 2010

    Acts 17 to me is about engaging the culture. Paul did that where ever he went, but it is more vivid here in Athens when he goes to Areopagus to debate. When he saw how pagan the city was he did not hold any protests or complain about the government or the leaders. He started preaching the good news. I think the church today can learn something from Paul. The job of the church is not to complain how bad the world is. God already knows more than we do about that. The job of the church is to preach the good news in a bad world, to be disciples and make disciples.

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    Keith Schooley 
    Tuesday, 9. February 2010

    The church today often takes a confrontational stance toward the culture; we feel it’s our duty to “take a stand for the truth.” (Meanwhile, I think we’re all too often co-opted into some of the worst aspects of our culture, because we don’t recognize them as sinful, but that’s another story….)

    Paul takes a totally different approach. He doesn’t take a confrontational stance toward the idolatry of Athenian society. He doesn’t denounce them for their idolatry. Instead, he finds something within it that he can use as a means to introduce the gospel. His concern is not to denounce the people but to draw them to Jesus.

    God simply doesn’t need us to “take a stand for the truth.” He needs us to introduce Jesus into this broken world.

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    ken skinner 
    Tuesday, 9. February 2010

    I think this is my favorite chapter outside of the Gospels. Paul and his ability to not condemn the culture, but to use it to illustrate God’s glory is just awesome.

    I love John Glen high school, but I look forward to the day when ekklesia will enter into the marketplace and engage the culture in a way a lot of people might not be used to.

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    Cecile Schooley 
    Tuesday, 9. February 2010

    I’m with you Ken!

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    Gabe 
    Tuesday, 9. February 2010

    It’s very interesting the way Paul introduced his sermon to the people of Athens saying that the people are very religious, and then points out that he saw an alter with the inscription: “TO AN UNKNOWN GOD”. He makes the point that they don’t even know the things that they worship. Then he tells them the truth about the one and only God. A God who does not live in temples built by hands or is represented by an image made by human design. A God who lives within our very souls.

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    Dave Pop 
    Wednesday, 10. February 2010

    I love how the disciples in Berea took an active approach in receiving the message. They didn’t just passively accept it.
    The meaning of the Greek word used in v11 (anakrino) sums up what they were doing: “sifting up and down, making careful and exact research.”

    The result: many believed.

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    Tina Taylor 
    Monday, 15. February 2010

    17:11
    Amazing how the Bereans were so eager to learn more about God and all that He created and does. They were so intrigued that they set out to study the Word daily.

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    Joshua Jackson 
    Monday, 15. February 2010

    17:24-31
    I like this part because it’s all true. God did make everything and the only thing He needs from us is for us to help others learn about Him (that’s what I think).

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