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The Recruitment Of Two Men In The Book Of Acts

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In the book of Acts, the author prepares his readers for a historic transformation of Christianity. The author successfully does this by incorporating the recruitment of two different men. Between the two men, the most dramatic recruit was that of Saul. Saul was a zealous Pharisee who was devoted to chastising Christians and destroying the up and coming movement (Harris, 2014). While traveling to persecute Jewish believers on the Damascus Road, Saul was blinded and had an encounter with the Lord. God commanded Saul to turn from his wicked ways and preach the Gospel to the Gentiles. In his being blinded, he was cared for by the Christians he was there to persecute. God’s message left him a believer and he was renamed Paul and became a great
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