When the apostle Paul arrived in Athens, he found a city "full of idols" — yet one inscription stopped him in his tracks: an altar dedicated "to an unknown god." In this week's sermon on Acts 17, Revd. Mark Fletcher looks at what Paul did next: standing before the philosophers of the Areopagus, he offered them not another god to add to the list, but the possibility of actually knowing the one true God for themselves.

Fletcher explores what it means to seek God with real intellectual honesty — a rare thing, he suggests, because it demands humility: the willingness to admit we don't know, or that we're wrong, and to live with whatever we find. The sermon holds together two sides of Christian belief that are easy to lose: a God who is utterly transcendent, and yet, in Paul's words, "not far from each one of us."

Watch or read "The Unknown God". Join us for Evening Worship each Sunday at 5:30 PM in Château-d'Œx, or online via our livestream.

Full transcript and video: https://stpeters.ch/sermons/unknown-god/