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a funny moment this week...

“She just doesn’t want to miss anything.” Ms. Barb

The original language of Christianity is translation. Professor Lamin Sanneh Yale Divinity School

Today: Love your neighbor who you do not understand.

“...and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8

To be a witness you have to listen to the lived experience of the people you are witnessing to. Professor Rolf Jacobson Luther Seminary

LISTEN WITH CARE Begin with Prayer Eat Together Serve in Love BLESS Begin with Prayer LISTEN WITH CARE Eat Together Serve in Love Share Your Story

The Key: Enter into their world... Listening with Care The Key: Enter into their world...

Acts 17:22-31 Paul in Athens Listening with Care

How many times does he say Jesus? How many times does he say God?

“People of Athens. I see that in every way you are very religious “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.

In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

How many times did he say Jesus? How many times did he say God?

The Key: Enter into their world Listening with Care The Key: Enter into their world and look for God. “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

Throughout Acts God is always ahead of the people, we don’t bring God when we bare witness, we trust that God is already there, ahead of us. Our job is simply to name what is already happening. Professor Rolf Jacobson Luther Seminary

Listening with Care Enter in to their world and look for God.

The Key: Enter into their world Listening with Care The Key: Enter into their world and use their ideas. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.

a yeah but pause

Protecting God’s Holiness

Protecting God’s Holiness & Mile 113

Recognizing God’s Holiness

Listening with Care Enter in to their world and look for God. use their ideas.

Listening with Care Enter in to their world and look for God. use their ideas. point them towards Jesus Christ.

In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

Enter in to their world and look for God. use their ideas. point them towards Jesus Christ.

Where are you being invited to enter in and listen? Call to Faith - Where are you being invited to enter in and listen?