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To an Unknown God.’ That’S the Very God I’M Here to Talk About Easter 6 May 17, 2020 Psalm 67, Romans 1:16-21, Romans 2:12-16; Acts 17:16-34 The Unknown God ******************************************************** Paul’s been dropped off in Athens by his traveling companions, who are trying to keep him out of trouble awhile, after he’s been jailed and nearly killed, in other stops along the way. The message of Jesus was not always warmly received in the ancient world. (Nor today.) Those who think they’ve got almost everything in life already... often feel threatened by the idea that we need Jesus to be all we’re meant to be. (Only those who know something is missing in their life tend to listen well to the good news of Jesus.) His companions are probably hoping Paul will chill awhile and not speak in public while in Athens. But Paul can’t keep still. As he’s been walking the streets of Athens he’s been stressing out over all the idol worship he sees. Yet, he’s biting his tongue and hiding his dismay – as he talks about Jesus with anyone who might listen...Especially in the public marketplace, where people are used to gathering to hear public speakers. Hearing about Jesus risen from the dead causes some to scoff. But other are curious. So Paul gets invited to speak in the prestigious marketplace of ideas – the Areopagus, meaning Hill of Ares in Greek, Mars Hill in Latin. A meeting place built on the hill of Areopagus – and the name of the civic society that meets there. Named for the god of war, Ares in Greek, Mars in Latin. Now philosophers and city leaders meet there for intellectual combat. And it would be an understatement to say Athenians took philosophy seriously. Football coaches get fired for a losing season. But the Areopagus guild of old condemned the philosopher Socrates, a Super Bowl champion philosopher to death for being a loser in their game. Socrates was charged with ‘promoting foreign gods.’ Now it’s been suggested Paul may be promoting foreign gods by proclaiming Jesus resurrected. (When death is a powerful cultural idol, resurrection life can appear to be a disturbing foreign invader.) Fortunately, Mars Hill has mellowed a bit in the centuries since Socrates. There’s no formal trial this time. Only Paul’s ideas are put to the test. And he’s used to that. He’s prepared. He knows he isn’t going to please everyone. And he knows it’s good to start from any common ground he can find with his audience. We’ve just heard of Paul’s deep distress over the city’s pervasive idol worship. Yet here he is, saying – People of Athens – I see that in every way you are very religious! As I toured your city and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I found an altar with the inscription: ‘to an unknown god.’ That’s the very God I’m here to talk about. Then Paul seeks common ground – appealing to the evidence for God in creation, saying: The God who made the world and everything in it doesn’t live in temples built by human hands... Since he himself gives life and breath to all living things. Many of those in the Mars Hill society would agree. They had a concept of a divine universal presence greater than the lesser gods of the culture. And the apostle now gives a nod to Jewish and Christian faith, saying: From one ancestor he made all nations...Emphasizing our common ground origins and shared heritage... Connecting next our common heritage with common purpose – pointing to God’s higher-ground hopes for humanity (quote): So that they would search for God, and perhaps reach out and find him – though indeed he’s not far from each one of us – for “in him we live and move and have our being” – and as some of your own poets have said – “for we too are his offspring.” Paul quotes a pair of well-known Greek poets – Epimenides and Aratus. He’s studied Athenian culture enough to know these quotes will be recognized as he uses them to reinforce his message. He hopes his audience will some day come to know the words of the Hebrew bible... But he knows they don’t know the scriptures yet... So he speaks in their own cultural language – like singing a few lines of a Beatles tune to agnostic baby boomers... Hey Jude, don’t make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better... Don’t waste the gift of the life you’ve been given... Let your life make a difference...for the better... Good communication usually begins with finding common ground. Paul finds the one altar in a ten-thousand-altar town that fits his theme – and from there he finds yet more common ground. By the time he gets to the harder parts of the message – accountability – judgment – and resurrection – it doesn’t feel like he’s driving us off a cliff. The apostle has walked us into the Jesus Message, taking us far as he can without even mentioning the name of Jesus. He walks us to the doors of faith – opens the doors – gives a gracious invitation... But doesn’t push. From the rest of the book of Acts and Paul’s letter to the Romans we know – there are huge differences between Christian and Jewish monotheism and the surrounding culture – where idols and idol worship are taken for granted. We know the commandment: You shall have no other gods before me... and you shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven, above, or on earth, below. And we probably know an idol strictly speaking is anything we love and serve more than God. So we might expect Paul to speak directly against the idols of Athens. As he confronts idol worship directly in our readings from Romans today. The difference being – in Romans he’s writing to people who already worship God. In Athens the gospel needs to be taught differently... Paul’s Athens sermon is a great example of how to communicate about God in a world where the God who made all things and put on human flesh and rose from the dead to save the world – is still so often “the unknown god.” Like Paul in Athens, we have to make adjustments for context as we seek to communicate. We’re not in ancient Athens any more. Boston used to call itself the Athens of America, but with the internet, anyone anywhere can be in Virtual Athens. And anyone who wants to badly enough can find a way to literally or figuratively hack into Harvard, MIT or Oxford and get the equivalent of a home-school PhD online. Like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, home-schooling himself, solving mind-boggling math problems all while working as a janitor at MIT. Which comes to mind because... Now days the gods of technology promise to make us all brilliant... for about fifteen minutes. Till we’re replaced by robots smarter than us, running on artificial intelligence. And at the risk of being accused of introducing foreign gods – we need to tell the world – we don’t live by bread or brains alone. The idols of technology and the even more popular idols of money and power that drive them... can never feed the hunger of our souls... and... Paul’s preaching on Mars Hill is more relevant than ever today, because – any time we navigate the tv channels or the internet we’re reminded of how much our culture resembles ancient Athens on steroids. Athens had its ten thousand idols. Our culture’s got ten million.... Like Athens of old, many today still chase after every new idea that comes along – and – still remain skeptical of everything at the same time. All the more reason, then, for us to keep learning the Jesus story... And keep getting better at living and telling His story. Starting with how Jesus is making a difference in our lives... Gradually working into how we do need to make changes in our lives for Jesus – but it’s much less about what we have to do – much more about what we get to do, together – supported by God and God’s community of faith. And the more we get to know Jesus, the happier we are to make changes for him. The more we know Jesus, the more our life becomes truly worth living...The more we know Jesus, the more we know... We don’t need to enroll at Harvard, don’t need to study ancient Greece in detail, don’t need to know all about Mars Hills of old in Athens. Don’t need to know ancient Greek poetry, or even understand the ancient lyric poetry of Lennon, McCartney and Dylan... We just need to be able to live and tell the Jesus story... so others can enter into it with us. Finding common ground like Paul in Athens. And the more we look around, the more we realize how much common ground is here already – in the daily life and struggles that come with these times. As we share in the common ground frustrations that come with staying home for months at a stretch... The common anxieties that come with trying to balance best practices for staying safe and healthy, and the demands of work and finances and spiritual health... all at the same time... And at the same time, yet, more wonderfully – how we share in so many deep common ground hopes..
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