The meaning of life isn't to find happiness or to find order and control. It's to find connection with the Image of God, perfect in Jesus and present in your neighbor.
In Acts 17 Paul is in Athens and he's deeply concerned about all of the idols - so many idols - even idols to unknown gods! He argues with the philosophers that God isn't an idea - God isn't way up there or on the other side - God is here, not so far, and what a scandal that he might look like the Nazarene son of a Jewish Carpenter.
After listening to this episode: What are your idols? What has the pursuit of your idols caused you to miss out on? Have you made God or Church or Community into an idol?
What would change if you began to see by the light of Christ what the light illuminates right here and now?
Advent Week 1: Impossible Hope
How and Why to Engage the Scriptures PART6: Paul's Letters
How and Why to Engage the Scriptures PART 5: Parables as Puzzles
How and Why to Engage the Scriptures PART4: The Wisdom Literature
How and Why to Engage the Scriptures PART 3: The Prophets
How and Why to Engage the Scriptures PART 2: The Violent Histories
How and Why to Engage the Scriptures PART 1: The LAW
ACTS Ep12: The Church is a Guest
ACTS Ep11: Breaking Bread in the Storm
Acts Ep10: Non-Anxious Paul in an Anxious World
ACTS Ep9: Paul Performs theScript
ACTS Ep7: Cut and Run
Acts Ep6: The Politics of Respectability
Acts Ep5: Changing Our Mind
Acts Ep4: But The Bible Clearly Says
ACTS Ep3: Marriage, Money, and Power
ACTS Ep2: The Kin-dom of Christ and the House of Commons
ACTS Ep1: The Elisha to my Elijah on the Day of Pentecost
Episode 7: The Apocalypse of Jesus and The Everlasting Garden
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