Dearest e-votees-
Day seventy-nine of our cover to cover voyage through the Bible. If you want to see the readings for our trip through the Bible you can follow this link:
Peace,
Karl
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Day 79 Readings: Acts 16:38-28:16
Included in today's reading is perhaps one of the greatest preaching moves in all of scripture. In Acts 17 Paul is in Athens. He finds himself at the Areopagus (aka Mars Hill) talking to some of the thinkers of the day. He tells them that as he was admiring the city he found an altar to an "UNKNOWN GOD" and that he was about to make known to them that which they worship as unknown. Absolutely brilliant.
How many of us take the time to get to know the mission field around us? Do we study its nooks and crannies hoping to find ways to reach out to them? Do we take the time to talk to any and all who would hear about the hope we have and hope that they would have in Christ Jesus? Do we have the courage to speak not for our own sake but rather for the sake of the other?
How do the folks in our culture (and even us at times truth be told) worship a god who is unknown to us? Do we help people come to know that God or do we heap judgment on them and us? What might we learn from Paul in this sermon tucked away in Acts?
There are many who don't know God. Will we let the Holy Spirit stir us to pass along the faith?
God, help us to know you and to make you known. Amen.
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