It was a great Sunday at both of our Fairview campuses. We are having first timers and returners at both and the energy is contagious! Keep inviting Fairview! We are surrounded by people who need Jesus and need a church family and are just waiting to be invited. My husband brought a great message from Acts 17 as Paul shared with the people exactly who this unknown god was that they worshipped. Many of the things mentioned in scripture are the same for us today. Many of the people were extremely intelligent but believed wrong. There were idols everywhere in the city just as they are in our city, only we don't label ours as such. We see that religious people feared God but had no relationship with God.
Paul shared the simple truth of the gospel with them, pointing out that the one true God who created everything was also involved in every aspect of life. He is a God who is bigger than what their hands could create and He's too big to keep in their enormous buildings. He created them, they didn't create Him.
The people also responded much like people today. Some sneered and mocked and denied. Some decided to delay their decision and hear more later. And others decided to follow. As we looked at Dionysius who was an up and outer and Damaris a down and outer, we see that it's a whosoever gospel as they both decided to follow.
Too often good people think they're good enough and bad people think they're too bad. Christ overcomes all of that and His blood covers all sin.
