Here’s a post for you to add your comments about Acts 9.
If I was making up the chapters in Acts (keeping in mind that the chapter breaks were artificially added to the text), I would have ended Acts 9 at the end of verse 31. Just saying.
Saul’s conversion leaves me with this question. How much did Jesus or his spirit play a role in your becoming his follower? In my own case, there was nothing at all dramatic about the process, although in looking back at what happened I deduce that the spirit had a hand in suspending my critical and analytical tendencies.
God was working in different ways with me to draw me to Himself. Here are a few of them.
1) Front page news…televangelist prostitution scandal. I thought, “Either this Christian pastor isn’t doing as the Bible says, or else the Bible is trash. I’m going to figure this out for myself.” I skimmed the entire Bible, concluding that the pastor was not behaving in line with the Bible he was preaching.
2) One night a voice kept staying: “Romans 2:4. Romans 2:4. Romans 2:4.” It kept nagging at me and I knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep until I looked it up. I figured it was a book in the Bible, but I had no idea where Romans was and had to use Table of Contents. When I read the verse, the words so specifically addressed my heart that I thought, “Oh my! There really might be a God trying to communicate to me!”
Thanks for sharing, Barb. I like your initiative, which you so often display, of deciding to and then actually doing the research to find out for yourself.
Thank you for sharing that Barb. I’m going to Romans 2:4 now to see what He was saying ☺️