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Paul’s Areopagus sermon, a classic example of biblical apologetics
Paul speaks to his listeners on their own ground, starting on their own terms
Imagine you had your own company.
You built it up from scratch.
Through hard work, sleepless nights, and countless loans, you finally got the formula right.
Your providing a service that people need.
Your way of helping your customers is second to none.
And because of not only what you do, but how you do it, the quality, service, and knowhow has brought you to a place of being a reputable, well known, and even honored company.
And then, someone else takes over., they other ways of doing things, they begin to cut corners, lower standards, start to devalue their customers, before long the company is no longer enjoying its hard won reputation.
How long does this take?
Not honoring God is devaluing the Christian position.
We cannot cut corners on our faith
We cannot lower our standards of what it means to be a Christian.
When we talk about each other in a negative way, arent we devaluing one another?
When I first walked into a church, I was struck by the reverence, the awesomeness of God.
Why, I believe it was the foundation that the church was built upon, the fact that you are stepping into a space that has been set apart for God.
Do we treat one another as being set apart for God?
It is the power of the Holy Spirit, settling into the space and our hearts when we accept Christ into our hearts, our homes, and our worship places (the Church).
Paul expresses his horror at seeing all of the idols that now permeate the space that was once occupied by the one true God.
He explains the Christian position, he reminds the people who they are and whose they are.
We don’t cut corners on our faith.
We cannot and must not try to shrink or otherwise shape God into a form that makes God fit into our daily lives.
Our lives were given to us by God and our lives belong to God.
Allowing God to transform us takes, faith, humbleness of heart, and a continuing walk in the will of Almighty God that occurs when we follow God’s way and not our own.
Paul presents the Christian position
We don’t cut corners on our faith.
We cannot and must not try to shrink or otherwise shape God into a form that makes God fit into our daily lives.
Our lives were given to us by God and our lives belong to God.
WE are the ones that need to cry out to God.
Mold me and Make me after your will!, not the otherway around.
It is God who formed us and not we ourselves.
Paul supports his argument in a culturally appropriate way
Paul supports his argument in a culturally appropriate way
Paul quotes from two secular writers, first from the Cretan poet Epimenides, and secondly from the Cilician poet Aratus.
Paul concludes his argument and calls for a response
The technique that Paul uses here in this text is known as Apologetics.
It is the defense of the Gospel, not an excuse for it.
It is using our acquired knowledge of our age to understand and communicate the Gospel the Euangelion, the Word that transforms our lives.
For we are not to be conformed by this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
Apologetics is a way to help us in our transformation process.
To be Holy as God is Holy.
Apologetics as a regular feature of Paul’s ministry
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Apologetics is part of the work of church leaders
All Christians share responsibility for the task of apologetics
Other examples of Christians engaging in apologetics
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Apologetics alone is an inadequate way of presenting the gospel
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