APOSTLE OF PAUL

The Apostle Paul is perhaps the most important figure of the early Church.  He described himself as a person of correct lineage, systematically educated, zealously religious, and politically connected.  He persecuted the followers of the Way to their death, arresting them and throwing them into prison.  He believed that these actions preserved and protected the religious traditions of his forefathers.

Then Jesus knocked him down on the road to Damascus, and there everything changed.  Paul’s priorities and motivations moved from fear to love, from control to surrender, from obsession with tradition to zeal for the grace of God.

Let us pray that through this season of LENT that we will become like Apostle Paul, Compelled by Love