After training twelve other apostles for three years, why did Jesus Christ call Saul the Pharisee, the one responsible for zealously persecuting his Church, and make him an apostle? We may well answer that Jesus did so simply for the sake of Saul’s soul, but there is a deeper and broader dimension. Until Saul received the call on the road to Damascus, the fledgling Church had been limited, even hamstrung, in its evangelistic mission. The Church’s missionary enterprise was
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