God's Story Is Our Story: From Acts to New CreationSample

In his second (Acts 16-17) and third missionary journeys (Acts 18-19), Paul continues to spread the message of what Jesus has done further into the Gentile world. He crosses from modern day Turkey into modern day Greece. With the Gentile issue resolved in Acts 15, the gospel goes further and further into the Gentile world.

While in Athens, Paul is asked to present his message at the center of academic debate: the Aeropagus. Paul's message is a challenge to pagan religion. God does not need our religious sacrifices. He is not controlled by our religious temples or activities. He is self-sufficient and needs nothing outside of himself.

Paul flips the story. It's not that humans have been seeking God, but that God has been seeking humans. He has been orchestrating the events of human civilizations so that people would find him.

God's story is one where he wants to be found. God has been orchestrating the details not only of human history but of our own lives in order to point us to his reality. What has God been putting in your life to draw you back to himself?