Paul’s encounter with the risen Jesus on the Damascus road is the most crucial event in Christian history, second only to Christ’s death & resurrection. Luke—the ‘great storyteller’–narrates the dramatic story three times in Yet it’s easy to miss the real significance in the outward drama. Notably Paul himself never recounts the outward drama. His autobiographical references trace the inner repercussions of that seismic event. Paul had to rethink his fundamental values, priorities and goals. He didn’t simply add Jesus to his former way of life. Paul declares, “God revealed His Son in me” (not simply ‘to me’); that God “shined into our hearts” in new creation; that he saw the “supreme value of Christ,” which depreciated everything else. We don’t need the outward drama, yet the same inward transforming experiences can be ours.