The culture into which Christianity was born was just as skeptical and hostile to the claims of Christianity as ours is today. Because of Paul’s desire for the people in the world to know Christ, he heads into the marketplace to share the good news of God’s complex love. Tim Keller points out that Paul’s reasoning in the marketplace shows: 1) The cultural power of the Gospel 2) The intellectual power of the Gospel and 3) The personal power of the Gospel.


