Ministry in Athens - Part Two

Having interacted with Paul for many days, the philosophers in the agora concluded that he should present his gospel to the men of the Areopagus, apparently with the hope that a broader inquiry might make sense of the things he was proclaiming. That appearance was the setting for Paul's Athens sermon - the second of three Luke recorded in his account. The first sermon was preached to a Jewish audience, whereas this one involved a pagan Greek audience with no knowledge of the God of Israel or the Jewish Scriptures. In this instance, Paul couldn't reason from the Scriptures, but he did follow the same principle in his gospel witness: Whether in the synagogue at Pisidian Antioch are at the Areopagus in Athens, Paul recognized the crucial importance of becoming all things to all men. Jew or Greek, witnessing to Christ involves meeting men at the point of their own understanding, worldview and cultural paradigms.