Searching for Common Ground

What’s interesting about the story of Paul on Mars Hill is that, despite the philosophers’ apparent disdain for him (Acts 17:18), the city of Athens seemed to have a strong tradition of welcoming different perspectives—or at the very least, of celebrating the attempt to know God.

And Paul’s whole approach is not about denigrating that openness, but in recognizing that this pursuit itself is the start of divine knowledge.

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