Sermon by the Rev. Kate Ekrem for April 14 2013
Acts 9:1-19a
Many years ago, I met a woman, a new member of the Episcopal
Church, who said that what she loved about our church was that people were not
continually asking her the date and time of her conversion to Christ. She came
from a tradition – I can’t even remember what it was – where that was the norm,
and in many churches it still is. My friend found the fact that we weren't so
interested in her conversion hard to get used to, but refreshing, but I wonder if conversion isn't something we should think more about.
This
morning we read the famous story of Saul, who was later of course called Paul,
the author of most of the letters in the back of the New Testament. We read the
famous story of how he turned from unbelief to belief in an instant that was
like a flash of light.
