Reasoning from the Scriptures

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2017&version=ESV

We are called to serve God with our entire beings and this includes our minds and speaking abilities. In this chapter we see Paul reaching out to various audiences and using the Old Testament as the starting point for the Jews and the altar to the unknown god for the Greeks. Paul understood that we can start the conversation about Christ by leveraging what someone already knows and believes, but that the truth of Jesus remains the same.

We are responsible for spreading the Word of God as He provides opportunities, but God alone can move the hearts of the people. Some mocked and reviled. Others listened and believed.

Paul's speech to the Greeks sums up society even now after two thousand years have passed, so I end with the last portion of his speech.

27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward Him and find Him. Yet He is actually not far from each one of us,

28 for

"'In Him we live and move and have our being';
as even some of your own poets have said,

"'For we are indeed His offspring.'

29 Being then God’s offspring,we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent,

31 because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom He has appointed; and of this He has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead."