Simon Wallace - I went through Confirmation classes to "confirm my faith in God" and become a member of the church. I don't remember the Bible being opened during these classes to have God's way of salvation explained. I had been baptised as a child and after these sessions was now a member of the church, and yet I remained ignorant as to the very reason for which Christ came into the world...
Memory Verse: I Timothy 1:15 Memory Verse Text: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Attention Getter:
Point 1: God had had his eye on this man for sometime. As we understand the scripture, God had had his eye on him from the very beginning. Only much later on did it really dawn on him
Galatians 1:15. Point 2: His good life - exemplary and energetic so far as human standards - Philippians
3:4-6 - all stands for nothing, and he was found to be an enemy of God and His Christ. God had been speaking to him - goading him - and never more loudly than at Stephen's death. Point 3: God brings the man to a halt. Though bent on the destruction of the believers. God is determined to make him one himself. The various things - his journey - light from heaven - bringing him to a halt - humbling him - causing him to cry out in his distress, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Are all things that picture the work of God in the salvation of a sinner. Use them to your advantage as you press home the story. Point 4: Overwhelms him in a moment. Saves him and changes him and then motivates and uses him. Use the various accounts and references to Paul's conversion in preparing the lesson.
Notes: The story of God's grace to him - expanded over the telling, for the more he thought about it and told it, the work of grace was enlarged and enhanced.
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Simon Wallace
