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Introduction & Background
What is the Marketplace?
VI.
Paul Witnesses to the Greek World (15:36–18:22)
1. Parting Company with Barnabas (15:36–41)
1. Parting Company with Barnabas (15:36–41)
2. Revisiting Derbe, Lystra, and Iconium (16:1–5)
3. Called to Macedonia (16:6–10)
4. Witnessing in Philippi (16:11–40)
(1) Founding a Church with Lydia (16:11–15)
(2) Healing a Possessed Servant Girl (16:16–24)
What is the Marketplace
(2) Healing a Possessed Servant Girl (16:16–24)
(3) Converting a Jailer’s Household (16:25–34)
(3) Converting a Jailer’s Household (16:25–34)
The Deliverance (16:25–28)
The Deliverance (16:25–28)
The Witness (16:29–34)
The Witness (16:29–34)
5. Establishing Churches in Thessalonica and Berea (17:1–15)
5. Establishing Churches in Thessalonica and Berea (17:1–15)
(1) Acceptance and Rejection in Thessalonica (17:1–9)
(1) Acceptance and Rejection in Thessalonica (17:1–9)
(2) Witness in Berea (17:10–15)
(2) Witness in Berea (17:10–15)
6. Witnessing to the Athenian Intellectuals (17:16–34)
6. Witnessing to the Athenian Intellectuals (17:16–34)
(1) The Athenians’ Curiosity (17:16–21)
(2) Paul’s Testimony Before the Areopagus (17:22–31)
(2) Paul’s Testimony Before the Areopagus (17:22–31)
I. What is the Marketplace
In Paul’s day Athens was but a shadow of its former glory in its “golden age” in the fourth and fifth centuries b.c.
Corinth was now the leading city of Greece commercially and politically.
Even Athens’ native population had dwindled, estimated at some 5,000 voting citizens.
But this was considerably augmented by the nonnative population, particularly the artists, the students, and the tourists.
And there were the buildings and the works of art, mute testimony to its former grandeur.
This is not to say that Athens was no longer an important city.
It was still considered the cultural and intellectual center of the Roman Empire, and it is in this perspective that Luke portrayed it.
Polhill, J. B. (1992).
Acts (Vol.
26, pp.
365–366).
Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
Today the marketplace are those arenas where we trade goods and exchange ideas.
The Mall
The Job
The Store
The Internet
All of these places are good soil for the Word of God.
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Epicureans and Stoics Today
Epicureans were thoroughgoing materialists, believing that everything came from atoms or particles of matter.
There was no life beyond this; all that was human returned to matter at death.
Though the Epicureans did not deny the existence of gods, they saw them as totally indifferent to humanity.
They did not believe in providence of any sort;
and if one truly learned from the gods,
that person would try to live the same sort of detached and tranquil life as they,
as free from pain and passion and superstitious fears as they.
The Stoics had a more lively view of the gods than the Epicureans, believing very much in the divine providence.
They were pantheists, believing that the ultimate divine principle was to be found in all of nature, including human beings.
This spark of divinity, which they referred to as the logos, was the cohesive rational principle that bound the entire cosmic order together.
Humans thus realized their fullest potential when they lived by reason.
By reason, i.e., the divine principle within them which linked them with the gods and nature, they could discover ultimate truth for themselves.
The Stoics generally had a rather high ethic and put great stock on self-sufficiency.
Since they viewed all humans as bound together by common possession of the divine logos, they also had a strong sense of universal brotherhood.
The mention of these schools is not incidental.
Paul would take up some of their thought in his Areopagus speech, particularly that of the Stoics, and thoroughly redirect it in line with the Creator God of the Old Testament.
Polhill, J. B. (1992).
Acts (Vol.
26, pp.
366–367).
Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
The world thinks it is wise, when in essence it only deals in foolishness...
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In the marketplace do not win people over with worldly wisdom, win them over with God’s Word...
So in the world the Gospel sounds strange and we cannot waste our time on foolish arguments
III.
Strange Things and Wasting Time
Strange Things
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Wasting Time
21 spent.
Ep. 5:16.
Col. 4:5. 2 Th.
3:11, 12. 1 Ti.
5:13. 2 Ti.
2:16, 17.
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