An Unlikely Advocate

Christianity is not just a rescue religion, but a revealed religion that depends on the authority of Scripture. Here Paul insists on what no one else can claim today: that the Gospel he preached was revealed to him directly by Jesus. To defend this bold claim, he simply tells his own story, which shows that he’s not telling us what we want to hear, nor what he wanted to hear, nor what anyone else pressured him to say – and yet it completely rewrote the story of his life. Like Paul, we who trust the integrity of this Gospel today find that it continues to challenge us in ways none of us would invent, rewriting our stories in surprising ways.