street and one would say to the other, “Charis.” I walked down the streets of Athens with a Greek friend of mine who is a missionary. He spoke to several people as we went by, and I said to him, “It sounds to me like you greet them with the word charis.” He laughed and said, “Well, it’s similar to it.” Apparently it’s still a form of greeting today. “And peace.” The greeting in the religious world was “Peace.” That is the word you hear in Jerusalem: “Shalom!” Paul takes these two words which were