Sermons On The Second Readings
According to the book of Acts, when Saul set out toward Damascus with his satchel of arrest warrants, he was a man on a mission. Both would change by the time he got there. Somewhere on that dusty stretch of road north of Jerusalem, he encountered the risen Christ and ended up experiencing a resurrection of his own. It was such a radical conversion that when he later reported it to the Corinthians, he described the entire event in the third person -- as if it had actually happened to somebody else. And in a sense, it did. One person died that day and another was born.
