Acts 17:22-31
So
Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens,
I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed
along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar
with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you
worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the
world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not
live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as
though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life
an breath and everything. And he made from on man every nation of
mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined
allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that
they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way
toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of
us, for 'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of
your own poets have said, 'For we are indeed his offspring.' Being
then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is
like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and
imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he
commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day
on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he
has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising
him from the dead.” Now when they heard of the resurrection of the
dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about
this.” So Paul went out from their midst. But some men joined him
and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a
woman named Damaris and others with them.
Pray for Kinmen.
LIVE. LOVE. LAUGH. CAPTURE IT!
~Bethany Truth
