Searching For A God To Serve

Published: June 14, 2015, 10 a.m.

b'Acts 17:22-3122 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: \\u201cMen of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. 24 \\u201cThe God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 \\u2018For in him we live and move and have our being.\\u2019 As some of your own poets have said, \\u2018We are his offspring.\\u2019 29 \\u201cTherefore since we are God\\u2019s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone\\u2014an image made by man\\u2019s design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.\\u201d'