Big Church Week Two - "The Wrong Choice"
God's ideas about fueling a movement are "whack." [If you don't know what the word "whack" means, you need a primer on your hip-hop speak circa 1989. Or you can simply read the various definitions here .] Take the way that God transformed the Apostle Paul , for example. God decided that Paul (formerly known as Saul) was the perfect choice to give movement to The Way (which was what Christianity was called in those early days... I sort of like it better to be honest!). And that's exactly what Paul/Saul did. Without Paul there would have been no rapid expansion of The Way to the Gentiles, and eventually to Rome itself. Paul accounted for 13 of the 27 books of the New Testament , not to mention being the Church's first real theologian. Here's the thing, though. If you didn't know how the story ended, you would have never predicted any of this stuff happening. Saul enters the story of the Church as a bad guy. The passage of S...