Imagine you're an ancient peasant living in a row.

Life for you is pretty tough.

You're just trying to survive.

Today you're at the local temple making sacrifices because you know that if you're going to survive,

you need the God's protection.

Problem is, the gods are temperamental and you're not sure if they like you or not.

So you spend time and money sacrificing hoping the gods will be on your side.

It's a cold and unpredictable world just like the gods who rule it.

But then imagine you walk out of the temple and see a crowd gathered around a guy on the street.

It's a guy you have heard of before.

He's a Jewish fanatic.

Those people who worship the one true God they say.

But now he's talking about something different.

Something they call the way.

You stop and listen and you realize he's talking about a different world altogether.

The kind of different world that Jews and Christians invited Greeks and Romans to live in.

It's not a world governed by all the toll unpredictable gods.

But it's a world that's stable and safe and the one creator God has shared with us.

Totally different views of the universe.

This is the Bible Project Podcast.

I'm John Collins and today we're going to wrap up our series of conversations on the Book of Acts.

Acts has chronicled the beginning of Christianity.

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