Acts 17:22-25

So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.  For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.  The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,  nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

In this passage, we find Paul capitalizing on a cultural fad: the hearing and understanding of new ideas. It was just the thing to do. (vs. 21) He began debating some philosophers, but that escalates to this more popular meeting referred to as the Areopagus. Get this: Paul has the attention of a great multitude in Athens, a city given over to the worship of idols (vs. 16). Some of these idols, as Paul points out, are to an unknown God – which provides Paul a platform to present the gospel. Part of the lure of new ideas was gaining understanding about what those ideas meant. God really couldn't have drawn up a better opportunity for Paul to preach. We are called to engage culture looking for opportunities to share our faith. It is not beyond God to use cultural trends as an instrument proclaim the glory of God.