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God and the Great Debaters

Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 4 p.m.

This Sunday, the eleventh  Sunday after Pentecost, we will continue our sermon series, Acts: Stories, Scenes, & Spirit. 

The text we will explore together is Acts 17:16-34, in which Paul finds himself in Athens surrounded by political and culture ideals, as well as, stone and marble idols. It is an interesting place for the Jewish Apostle of Jesus Christ to find himself and it doesn't take long for Paul to speak out in the synagogue and make a scene in the market square. His whole Athens adventure ends in a debate held in the Areopagus in which Paul goes toe-to-toe with the Epicureans and Stoics; introducing them to a God who "is not served by human hands" and  "is not far from each one of us."

How do we come to know this God who is both mysteriously transcendent and intimately personal? How does this God come to know us?

Loop Church is part of the Christian Reformed Church of North America and worships in Chicago, IL at 410 S. Michigan Ave. in the Fine Arts Building.