Acts 17:1 - 18:21
Thank you for continuing this journey of The Gospel Project®
for Kids. I hope you find true accounts of Paul’s missionary journeys
encouraging and empowering. In Sunday’s Bible account, Paul and Silas
traveled to Thessalonica and began preaching in the synagogue about
Jesus. Some became believers, but others wanted to attack them. Paul and
Silas escaped and went to Berea. The Jews in Berea studied the
Scriptures to make sure Paul was telling the truth. Many of them
believed! But when the Jews in Thessalonica heard what was happening in
Berea, they hurried there and caused trouble. So Paul and Silas went to
Athens.
The
city of Athens was a cultural center. People in Athens loved to hear
about and study the latest ideas. Paul spoke with the Jews and the
philosophers in the city. Athens was also full of idols to every kind of
god. There was even an altar to an unknown god.
Paul
began preaching, telling the people that they worshiped a god they did
not know. But people can know the Lord God! The one true God made the
world and everything in it! God was not like their idols. “We ought not
to think that God is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by
the art and imagination of man,” Paul said. Paul told the people that
God wanted them to turn away from their sins. Then Paul told them about
Jesus and how He was raised from the dead. Some people made fun of Paul,
but others believed.
From
Athens, Paul went to Corinth. He tried to persuade the Jews in the
synagogue that Jesus is the Christ, but they would not listen. Paul
spoke to the Gentiles, and many of them believed and were baptized. God
continued working through Paul.
The
men of Athens worshiped many false gods. Paul explained to them God’s
plan of salvation. He said that only God should be worshiped. Paul
talked about Jesus and the resurrection. People can know God because
Jesus took the punishment for sin that separates people from God. Only
the Lord—the one true God—deserves our worship.
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