Acts 17:22-28

In God we live and move and have our being.

The author of the gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles reports that Paul preached in Athens in the middle of the Areopagus. The apostle points to the Athenian tradition of acknowledging an unknown god and proclaims that the God he knows in Jesus the Christ, who has been raised from the dead, is the Creator of heaven and earth and the one God. Then Paul quotes the words of a Greek poet to affirm that our very life is dependent upon the God who, though unknown to them, is the source of all life.

The image of living "in God" shapes Paul's language about life "in Christ" and "in faith." God is not apart from us, but in God we have our being.

Grace and peace...Bob