The Areopagus in Grant Park

Last Sunday night The Living Room recreated the scene from Acts 17 when Paul addressed the Athenians in the Areopagus (Mars Hill). Sidewalk chalk was used to point arrows from our church to an open field in Atlanta's Grant Park.




However, unlike 2000 years ago pets were welcomed into our Areopagus!

We were all totally unaware that when Dan was leading us in singing songs from Pagan, Native American, and Buddhism. Why did he do this? He wanted to play off of the idea how Paul, in a sense, "lifted up" the faith and religion (and poetry) of the Greeks when he spoke in the Areopagus. Paul met the Athenians were they were and he made a case for Jesus by appealing to the fact that we all come from the same original human (Adam). Even though we sang non-Christian songs we were still able to worship the Christian God.

We ended our gathering with doing communion outside. Doug Resler, who was visiting us and preparing to start a church plant in Madison, Wisconsin, helped lead us in the celebration of the Lord's Supper. I don't know how I feel about this but even our four-legged friends partook of some bread and one even drank all our water from the baptismal font!!