How can you and I in a post-Christian society have steadfast hope? The apostle Paul’s story of conversion gives us the answer. Paul, known as Saul before he comes to know Christ personally by faith, was filled with the desire to threaten and slaughter Christians. It literally was the air he breathed. He was the foremost of sinners in the sense that he was tearing down the work of God. Yet God was merciful and showed His patience in saving Saul in a sudden and unexpected conversion.