To continue my part in our Sermon Series on Bad Days and How God Fixed them, I wanted to take a look at Saul. I wanted to approach Saul's bad day a little differently. We often look at Saul's bad day as hunting down the followers of Jesus or being blinded by Jesus on his was to Damascus. Yes, those are bad days but I wanted to focus on what happens after he begins to follow Jesus. I wanted to talk about how the Disciples, Apostles, and people he had been hunting treated him. Often times as people we have a hard time accepting someone new into the church, especially if we know what they do outside of the church. Saul was not easily accepted, yet Jesus changed his heart and he did amazing things, the early church was still apprehensive of him. Who are we pushing away from God, because we as people have a hard time accepting that His grace can change even that hardest of hearts?
We explore Saul's experience with God's grace and how we as Christians today react to God's Grace working in the people around us.
Saul's Bad Day
1. Are we blinded by having to be right?
Acts 9: 1-2
2. God’s grace changes hearts, can we accept that?
Acts 9: 26
Acts 9: 13-15
Acts 9: 20-21
3. God empowers us through changed hearts.
Acts 9:20-22
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