What, if anything, can we learn from Paul’s experience and approach in Athens as recorded in Acts 17? Are there similarities to Athens in the first century and America in the twentieth century? Have people changed over the years or are we still essentially the same? Is Paul’s address in the Areopagus to the Athenians a message that we can pattern our message after? Has the gospel changed over the centuries? Does the Bible still speak to us where we are today?
In John Stott’s commentary on Acts he draws these conclusions about Paul’s experience in Athens and challenges us to be Christians who see, feel, and speak in our world like Paul did in his:
A light in the darkness 