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Be an Evangelist!

Acts 17:16-34

The Acropolis Mountain

The Parthenon 450 BC

Mars Hill

Paul’s Behavior in Athens


• 16-21 Be Compassionate



• 22-23 Be Respectful




• 24-28 Be Aware




• 24-28 Be Aware

• 29-31 Be Biblical




• 24-28 Be Aware

• 29-31 Be Biblical

• 32-34 Be Ready

16-21 Paul & Athens

16-21 Paul & Athens

• Paul’s opponents, upset for the sake

of themselves, commit to chaos (Acts

17:5, 8, 13)

16-21 Paul & Athens

• Paul’s opponents, upset for the sake

of themselves, commit to chaos (Acts

17:5, 8, 13)

• Paul, upset for the sake of the well

being of others, commits to reason

16-21 Paul & Athens

• Paul’s audience, in arrogance, want

to know more (verse 18)

16-21 Paul & Athens



• “babbler” = “seed picker”

16-21 Paul & Athens




• Paul, in humility, desires to share more

16-21 Paul & Athens




• Paul, in humility, desires to share more

• Paul: Romans 9:1-3, Colossians 1:24

Colossians 1:24

“I know rejoice in my sufferings for you,

and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in

the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His

body, which is the church”

16-21 Paul & Athens

• Be Compassionate

16-21 Paul & Athens

• Be Compassionate

• To fully embrace Christianity is to

naturally embrace the needs of others

22-31 Paul Presents Jesus to Athens


• 22-23 God as “Unknown”



• “I perceive…I’ve considered…I

proclaim”




proclaim”

• “Unknown” = “agnosto”




proclaim”

• “Unknown” = “agnosto”

• Humans…worship

• “worth-ship”


• Be Respectful


• Be Respectful

• “Let your speech always be with

grace, seasoned with salt, that you

may know how you ought to answer

each one” (Colossians 4:6)


• 24-28 God as Creator



• Paul draws parallels to Greek

religion:




religion:

• God is; God isn’t; God gives

• Isaiah 44:9-20




religion:

• God is; God isn’t; God gives

• Isaiah 44:9-20

• God makes; God determines; God

is near all of us


• Be Aware


• Be Aware

• What is important to those people

around you?


• Be Aware

• What is important to those people

around you?

• What points of similarity can we find in

our culture?


• 29-31 God as Righteous Judge



• God doesn’t; God overlooks; God

commands




commands

• 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

“…how you turned from to God from

idols to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for His son from heaven,

whom He raised from the dead, even

Jesus who delivers us from the wrath

to come”




commands

• 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

• God appoints


• Be Biblical


• Be Biblical

• “…the hour is coming in which all who are

in the graves will hear His voice and come

forth – those who have done good, to the

resurrection of life, and those who have

done evil, to the resurrection of

condemnation” (John 5:28-29)

32-34 Athens Reacts to Jesus


• Some mocked


• Some mocked

• Some wanted to hear more


• Some mocked


• Some believed


• Some mocked


• Some believed

• Be Ready

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