Acts 14:15

and saying, " Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,

1. Why are you doing this? - Paul pleads with them to think about what he had been teaching.

2. Paul makes some points:

1. We are also men - not gods. Don't sacrifice to the apostles.

2. They suffer the same trials and temptations as the rest.

3. Turn from this "useless" exercise of sacrifice to gods.

4. Turn to the living God - the creator who made all things, animals and man.