Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.
When lives change for the better, it is usually for good reason. Many of us know stories of those who have had an experience with Christ and their lives have been drastically rearranged. The story of Paul’s conversion in Acts 9 is maybe the best known of those stories.
In it, Paul is on his way to persecute Christians, but ends up becoming one because God dramatically interrupted his life. Paul turns from one of the most zealous enemies of the faith to its most public proponent. What is significant for us in this story during the Easter season is that Paul clearly had an encounter with the resurrected Christ. The voice he heard said, “I am Jesus.” And Paul, being such a well-educated zealot, knew exactly who Jesus was and what had happened to him. Can you imagine how you would react if someone who knew to be dead appeared and called you by name?
Paul’s conversion could only have happened if Jesus really did rise from the dead.
This has been Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger pastor at Quail Lake Community Church and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies. For more information please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.
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