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Acts 17:1-4 Reasoning from scripture - Day 17

Good morning fellow workers,

My first afternoon of AF '21pie making happens today.  

Have you ever thought about how baking or any food preparation is like our walk as Christians?  If you follow the recipe, you will get good results.  Try to innovate and substitute baking soda for baking powder and you get a mess.  Paul goes back to scripture as his basis for everything he teaches.  No innovation or substitution to make it more appealing.  The gospel answers every other worldview.  There is only one foundation.

Blessings,

Jeff

Instruction - while Paul goes to the synagogue, the Gentiles are the ones who respond.  Some Jews but a great many of devout Greeks. The message is the same.   Reasoned with them from the scriptures (old testament).  Without the Old testament prophecies about the Messiah, would Paul have been so effective?  These devout Greeks had been convinced that Jewish scriptures were true. Without this, identifying Jesus as the Messiah would be meaningless. Yet he doesn't have this advantage in Athens. The gospel works in different contexts, but not necessarily the same way. Understand how the audience's worldview and preach Christ as the solution to their worldview. 

As Al Mohler points out, there is allot of emotion in BLM for justice right now on their terms. But there is no basis for standard of justice. 

Thanksgiving - The gospel message that shatters all other worldviews.  It is offensive to all of them. 

Confession - being insensitive to the faulty foundations of  idolatry around me. They are all built on sand. 

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