Who is the unknown God?
A:
From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham
How wonderful that you want to know what this means. This was the very question the great Apostle Paul answered as he stood before the people of the city of Athens. He had walked its streets and observed their customs. This pagan society had a niche for every god in the world, yet their moral corruption was revealed by the hundreds of idols illuminated by the sun at a place called Mars Hill in ancient Greece. Paul spoke with power before this congregation and acknowledged all of their gods and even the unknown God, who is none other than God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who had died for their sins and risen to new life.
Paul declared, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you” (Acts 17:22-23). What a marvelous declaration. The people of Athens had not stopped to consider their dark side. They had been too busy making gods like themselves.
Our society worships gods of our own making. Our culture is saturated with the worship of sports, sex and pleasure. We are busy humanizing God and deifying man. Our idols are not statues of gold and marble; our idols come from the things we love the most. Life does not have to be filled with such emptiness, but we can fill our minds and hearts with the things that bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. One who truly follows Him will have a hunger to worship Him and His Word that brings hope and gives salvation.
(This column is based on the words and writings of the late Rev. Billy Graham.)/ billygraham.org/answer/who-is-the-unknown-god/
Question:
- What did you learn in Paul`s ministry approach in Athens?
- How can this approach be useful to your every day evangelism or in your target people group?
1) Paula approach here displays that he wanted to tell the people of athens who God is the way the can understand, I close walk and study of the people made him understand that the people had what the discribe as the unknown God and so he uses these to show them how supreme God is above all the Gods the know
In dealing with my people group I will try to understand the meaning and value the place on things by so I will have a better method to Ilustrade what I intend to pass to them ie evangelism
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