Aside from Pentecost, Saul's conversion is probably the best-known story in Acts. Many popular depictions of the story in art show horses and darkness and light. Only the light appears in the story. The effect, however, is the same. Saul falls down, confronted by the risen Christ. Aside from God's Spirit and Jesus Christ, Paul is the most important human character in Acts. And the story of how he goes from persecuting fascist to messenger for Jesus made a deep impression on the author, Luke. He tells the story three times through the course of the book, meaning that this was an issue that Paul/Saul and his friends had to confront everywhere they went. Aren't you the guy that killed all those Christians at Jerusalem and murdered Stephen?
Saul's story is powerful. God changed a man's heart and changed the focus of his life. How many of us have allowed God to change us that way?
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