Paul's Visit To Athens

The city of Athens was one of the most remarkable cities in the ancient world — brilliant, beautiful, and deeply lost. When the Apostle Paul walked its streets, he wasn't impressed by the architecture or moved by the history. He was provoked by the idolatry. And that provocation sent him to Mars Hill, where he delivered one of the most remarkable sermons in the New Testament — a sermon that gave a city full of people who had never heard of the God of Israel the whole story of reality: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Consummation.

In this message, Pastor Deonte Walters walks through Acts 17:16–34 and shows us what faithful witness looks like in a post-Christian, pluralistic world. How do we engage people who are biblically illiterate? How do we speak to skeptical intellectuals? How do we start where people are and walk them toward the one true God? Paul shows us the way. And at the center of everything he preaches is the fact that has changed the world and still changes lives today — the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The empty tomb is God's public announcement to the world that Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Savior, and Jesus is Judge. And that announcement demands a response.