About this episode

The episode discusses how God can repurpose individuals with a troubled past, using the conversion of Saul as a key example.

In this episode of The Pursuit, James Griffin, Carlos Fernandez, and Ansley Huckaby unpack the conversion of Saul in Acts 9, where God stops the church's most violent enemy cold on the road to Damascus. The team sits in the truth underneath that story, that God didn't replace who Saul was, He repurposed it, taking the same fire that made him dangerous and aiming it in a new direction. From there they trace the quiet lie that runs underneath so much of our faith, the feeling that your past has...

People in this episode

Host: James Griffin

Guests: Carlos Fernandez, Ansley Huckaby

Topics covered

• conversion
• faith
• repurposing
• spiritual growth
• identity
• Christianity

Keywords

• God
• Saul
• conversion
• Acts 9
• faith
• spirituality
• repurposing
• Christianity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Acts 9

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