Monday, March 28, 2022
Prayer for Week 5
Today, O God of all days, give me an
experience of your heart. Draw me deep into your very being, into the core of
your love for me, others, and the world. Give me a glimpse of others the way
you see others: loving them, forgiving them, and delighting in them. Help me to
discern how I too might be a useful vessel of your love in the world. Amen.
Acts 17:16-23
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he
was deeply distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he argued in
the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and also in the marketplace
every day with those who happened to be there. Also some Epicurean and Stoic
philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?”
Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was
because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) So they
took him and brought him to the Areopagus and asked him, “May we know what this
new teaching is that you are presenting? It sounds rather strange to us, so we
would like to know what it means.” Now all the Athenians and the foreigners
living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something
new.
Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
What was Paul doing in Athens while he waited?
What areas of our congregation's current context are you concerned or distressed about?
How
might God be calling us to ministry in the areas you lifted up?
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