Hello my friends, welcome back to another bonus episode of The Morning Mindset.

We started last week with an episode about Jesus changing everything.

And we focused in on the story of Saul, who we know better as the Apostle Paul.

He had his worldview radically altered by an encounter with Jesus Christ in our conclusion

and after looking at Paul prior to his conversion and what he believed about law-keeping, being

the way that he would be okay with God, and then looking at what his worldview changed

to by looking in his own words in the book of Philippians, how he said he counted all

of that prior belief and all the status and benefits that it brought to him as rubbish

for the sake of knowing Jesus, so his worldview radically changed.

And what I want to do today is continue looking at Saul's story and we're going to be looking

at it from the perspective of what it is like to respond to Jesus.

Once you see him, once you encounter him, once you understand that he's challenging your

worldview, what is your response going to be?

And how does that response shape your ability to fashion a new worldview?

Now we're going to continue in Acts chapter 9, which is where we started out in the last

bonus episode, looking at Paul's story.

And if you pick up in the story where we left off, Saul was on his way to this town called

Damascus to take Christians, Christ followers, into custody and arrest them, put them in prison

because he saw them as a cult.

But he encounters Jesus on the road, rather we might say Jesus encounters him, knocks him

flat on his back, blinds him, and confronts him about his behavior toward Jesus' church.

And that's where Saul's worldview began to be challenged, because he asks, who are

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