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Everyone has a story. Everyone that has come to faith in Jesus, anyway. We get to hear these stories during baptisms, and we have a bunch of those on video for you to watch and be encouraged. We are also producing a new video podcast, The Life, which features longer conversations with people in our own Harvest family about how they came to faith in Christ. I’m mentioning this here because Sunday’s message in Acts 22:2-21 features Paul telling his story to his fellow Jews in Jerusalem.
Paul does this under some duress, because he’s under arrest at the time and speaking in front of the Roman officer who had him arrested. Paul uses the occasion to testify powerfully about his conversion and the call of God on his life. Our story isn’t going to make it into Holy Scripture, but it is no less powerful to bring about salvation, because the same Spirit that dwelt in Paul dwells in us. The same Saviour saved us both. We all have a story.
As we look at the Word together this week, we’ll all learn how to make our story more effective in helping those who are not yet believers to hear a clear gospel message.
Series: The Book of Acts
Message: 61 – A Great Light
Text: Acts 22:2-21
Todd Dugard
Harvest Bible Chapel
November 16, 2025
It is by the light of the gospel that I…
…go from what I was (v. 2-11)
John 3:3
John 3:19b
…to meeting Jesus where I am (v. 12-16)
Romans 8:30
Titus 3:5
Romans 6:3-4
It is the most counterintuitive aspect of Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once we begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.
- Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly
Romans 6:5-6
…and becoming what I ought to be. (v. 17-21)
The battle of the Christian life is to bring your own heart into alignment with Christ’s, that is, getting up each morning and replacing your natural orphan mind-set with a mind-set of full and free adoption into the family of God through the work of Christ your older brother, who loved you and gave himself for you out of the overflowing fullness of his gracious heart.
- Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly
Resources:
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
https://a.co/d/2UUjdsQ
The Life podcasts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAplAsoIqsL60jks3V7f_XTlytokwiGdz
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By Harvest Bible ChapelEveryone has a story. Everyone that has come to faith in Jesus, anyway. We get to hear these stories during baptisms, and we have a bunch of those on video for you to watch and be encouraged. We are also producing a new video podcast, The Life, which features longer conversations with people in our own Harvest family about how they came to faith in Christ. I’m mentioning this here because Sunday’s message in Acts 22:2-21 features Paul telling his story to his fellow Jews in Jerusalem.
Paul does this under some duress, because he’s under arrest at the time and speaking in front of the Roman officer who had him arrested. Paul uses the occasion to testify powerfully about his conversion and the call of God on his life. Our story isn’t going to make it into Holy Scripture, but it is no less powerful to bring about salvation, because the same Spirit that dwelt in Paul dwells in us. The same Saviour saved us both. We all have a story.
As we look at the Word together this week, we’ll all learn how to make our story more effective in helping those who are not yet believers to hear a clear gospel message.
Series: The Book of Acts
Message: 61 – A Great Light
Text: Acts 22:2-21
Todd Dugard
Harvest Bible Chapel
November 16, 2025
It is by the light of the gospel that I…
…go from what I was (v. 2-11)
John 3:3
John 3:19b
…to meeting Jesus where I am (v. 12-16)
Romans 8:30
Titus 3:5
Romans 6:3-4
It is the most counterintuitive aspect of Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once we begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.
- Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly
Romans 6:5-6
…and becoming what I ought to be. (v. 17-21)
The battle of the Christian life is to bring your own heart into alignment with Christ’s, that is, getting up each morning and replacing your natural orphan mind-set with a mind-set of full and free adoption into the family of God through the work of Christ your older brother, who loved you and gave himself for you out of the overflowing fullness of his gracious heart.
- Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly
Resources:
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
https://a.co/d/2UUjdsQ
The Life podcasts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAplAsoIqsL60jks3V7f_XTlytokwiGdz