The essence of real repentance is that the mind does a turnaround. The Greek word is metanoia, meaning, literally, “to change one’s mind.” That is exactly what’s happened to the once-proud Pharisee on the road to Damascus. He modified his mind about God, about Jesus, about the Resurrection, about those who followed Christ.

This One who knew his name also knew what he’d been doing.

The raging rebel had ultimately met his match, and there wasn’t any place or way to cover. Some Christians try and impose their stiff system of yes and no’s on the issue of conversion. I need to caution against that kind of exercise.

It’s very unlikely to find any single place in Scripture that unearths the one-and-only way each sinner comes to Christ. While the message of the Gospel is the same, strategies differ. We are so conditioned by denominational backgrounds, spiritual traditionalism, and narrow-thinking bias, we not get the point of The Lord God’s grace. Be careful about accurate necessities on someone that truly turns to the Savior. Lost folk are saved while listening to a great song about Christ or while hearing a bible basher or Bible teacher explaining God’s Word from a pulpit or over TV or on the radio. Many come to Him all alone, while praying in the privacy of their houses. Night or day a sinner can call on the Lord Jesus Christ in religion and be saved. Without reference to precisely when Saul was converted, he noticed that the living Jesus, whom he had hated and denied his complete life, was now his Savior and Lord.