A man convinced he’s right meets a voice that can’t be ignored. We open with Saul standing at Stephen’s stoning—educated, zealous, and certain he’s defending God—and follow the thread to Damascus where light stops him cold and a single question changes the map of his life: “Why are you persecuting me?”
From there we trace the layers that make this story endure. Saul’s formation under Gamaliel, his Pharisee rigor, and his Roman status explain his force—and make his surrender even more striking. The word Lord on his lips isn’t casual; it carries the Old Testament weight of reverence, signaling that recognition begins before sight returns. Through Ananias’s hesitant obedience, “something like scales” fall, and a persecutor becomes a preacher. We explore why Acts tells this conversion three times, how Paul’s testimony fueled mission to Gentiles, and why the church remembers Peter and Paul as inseparable witnesses bound by the same gospel.
Along the way, we pull the story into the present. Most of us won’t meet a blinding light or fall off a horse, but we will be interrupted—by hard feedback, by loss, by friends who love us enough to challenge us. Conversion looks like letting community refine you, holding law and love together, and choosing habits that keep your heart listening. Rock bottom can be a foundation. Course corrections can be grace. And when the scales fall, even a little, the next right step becomes clear.
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