today on Summit Life with Jiddy Greer.

In Paul, we see a picture of what we need to be.

People who are deeply aware of our culture,

able to dialogue with it, but untainted by it.

Which means that we got to get to know our culture. We got to pay attention to it.

The only way Paul was upset by the idolatry of the culture is he'd spent time getting to know it. Welcome to a fresh week of biblical teaching here on summit life with pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

When it comes to cross-cultural communication, it's easy for even the simplest message to get lost in translation. After all, we all come to the table

with preconceived notions and customs and beliefs that have shaped us to this point.

And as it turns out, this is something that the early church had to

grapple with too a whole new world foreign to the gospel message was at their

doorstep. Today Pastor Jady explains that in order for others to fully understand our message, we need to first understand where they're coming from.

We're in a series titled Sent, and if you missed any of the previous messages you can listen to them

online when you visit us at JDgrier.com. Pastor JD titled today's

message starting where people are. If you have a Bible, I'd love for you to take it out and open it to the book of Acts, chapter 17.

When I was in college, I was a part of this thing called North Carolina Student Legislature. I went to a North Carolina

college and a couple times a year you would send each college in North Carolina,

I would send a delegation and we would come down here to the capital in North Carolina and we would like

present bills and argue like we were Congress and you know pass laws. What we did

had absolutely no bearing at all on any law ever but it was fun you

it was kind of like you know dress up for college students and so in one of these

sessions I was in my fast asleep in my hotel room 2.30 at night and one of my roommates who I

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