Acts 9:1-19a ; John 21:1-19 Picture, if you will, a tale of 2 conversions: Peter converting after rejecting the Way of Jesus and Saul converting after persecuting the followers of the Way. Consider, for a moment, what it might be like to be confronted by Jesus as these two were, and what kind of conversion might be expected of you. OK, I realize that was a little more Twilight Zone (and a little more confrontational) than the questions you normally hear from this pulpit but stay with me because the passages we have received today are actually pretty confrontational. In John’s Gospel, we have Peter, whom we are probably more likely to identify with, and in Acts, we have Saul, the bad guy version of Paul, but also Ananias. Before we jump into these stories like Peter did when he swam to Jesus in John 7, let’s talk a little about the idea of conversion. Generally speaking, most of you are probably here (on some level) because we don’t normally talk about “converting” others or “saving sou
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