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challenging us to tear down the boxes we placed around a God and allow him to reshape how we see and live.

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Acts chapter 17. I'm going to start in verse 16. It's our custom that we read a text from the Bible,

and then we make some observations,

and we apply it to our lives. And so today, let's look at Acts chapter 17. We will start in verse 16. While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the

synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those

who happened to be there. Now, a group of Epicurean and stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them

asked, what is this babbler trying to say? Others remarked, he seems to be advocating foreign gods.

They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Aeropagus, where they said to him,

may we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting.

You are bringing some of this new teaching.

You are bringing some of this new teaching.

You are bringing some of these strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what

they mean.

I like this in parentheses in my Bible.

It says all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing

but talking about in listening to the latest ideas.

Sounds like the barbershop to me.

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