“These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also…” (Acts 17:6 ESV)
Upside Down
A sure way to make my grandchildren laugh while on a video call is to slowly turn the camera 180 degrees. That makes me wonder if upside down is a funny thing.
But it is not, at least not in the book of Acts.
Rather, upside down means completely different. From the foundation of ideas and principles up to the application of those ideas by our fingertips, Christ, through the Gospel, changes everything.
When the Gospel seems to be the same as the world, we aren’t understanding the gospel. When the Gospel does not change our hearts, our thoughts, and our actions, we aren’t understanding the gospel. When the Gospel does not make us as different as Christ Himself is, we aren’t understanding the gospel.
Upside down is not funny… it is substantively, obviously, completely different.