“The Epicurean gods are absent and quiet, and you should be too. The Stoic God is present, but loveless, and you should be too. And then here comes Paul crashing into the Roman world with a message about a very different kind of God. For Paul and for most other Jews, God was not the petty and capricious superhuman of Greek folk religion, nor was God the indifferent-but-happy Creator of the Epicureans or the universal Mind of the Stoics. God comes to us in the world, but God is not of the world. God interacts with us, but God doesn’t act like us.“ Greg preaches on St. Paul’s debate with the Greek philosophers at the Areopagus.
Lectionary Readings:
Acts 17:22-31
1 Peter 3:13-22
John 14:15-21
Psalm 66:7-18