stop him from proclaiming the message and caring for the churches he had founded and nurtured. Most importantly of all, Paul was a model of what God can do with the least promising material. Here was a man who had persecuted the church of God but who had been rescued from his folly and turned around to become the great evangelist of the early church. He was living proof not only that a person is saved by faith and not by works but also that this salvation is God’s choice and not ours. No one had