Who is the Hero of Your Story? (Acts 22)
If you had a chance to speak to people who hated you, what would you say? In Acts 22, Paul gets that chance on the steps of the barracks in Jerusalem, and he does not attack, defend his reputation, or retell their version of the story. He tells them how Jesus found him.
In the message, Pastor Matthew walks through Paul’s testimony and shows why the hero of the story is not Paul, but Christ. Paul establishes common ground with the crowd, then tells how mercy stopped him mid-persecution on the road to Damascus, confronted him, saved him, and sent him. The applause ends the moment grace crosses their boundary and reaches the Gentiles. Paul is increasingly confined, yet the gospel keeps advancing, because Christian freedom is not the absence of chains but a life that belongs to Jesus.
This sermon asks a simple question: who is the hero of your story? Christ confronts, Christ saves, and Christ sends, and the same grace that stopped Saul is still reaching people the world has already written off.
