How was Paul a weak vessel at Mars Hill, and who is remembered there today?
At Mars Hill, Paul appeared as a weak vessel and a babbler in the eyes of the philosophers, yet God used him to confound the mighty. Today Paul is remembered there; a plaque at Mars Hill commemorates him, not the philosophers.
Les explains that God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things to confound the mighty (s49-s52). So when Paul came again to Mars Hill, he was just a weak vessel in the eyes of those philosophers; he was a babbler (s54-s57). Yet Paul shook him up, and Paul is remembered to this very day. When you get over there to Mars Hill, there is the plaque. They do not refer to those philosophers, but it was Paul, and God was the winner once again (s57-s63). Les ties this to the same line of thought: God uses the base things of the world, things even despised and ridiculed, and the things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are (s66-s72). The average reader may miss the impact, but the world sees such things as nothing and without credentials, yet God uses them to confound the high and mighty (s73-s88).
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;