Ten stories, one thread — from a shepherd's field outside Bethlehem to a blinding light on the road to Damascus. Every story ends the same place every man eventually has to stand: Face to face with who Jesus really is.
David and Goliath
Every Man Has a Giant Standing Over Him
The whole army stood frozen on one side of the valley. Forty days, and not one man moved.
Goliath was nine feet of trained killer, armor-plated, mocking the God of Israel every morning and every night — and every man with a sword in his hand stayed exactly where he was.
Then a teenager shows up with bread for his brothers and hears the taunt for himself. He doesn't have armor that fits. He doesn't have a title. What he has is a history with God that nobody else in that valley bothered to remember — the sheep he'd defended, the lion and the bear he'd already killed before anyone was watching.
"You come against me with sword and spear," David said, "but I come against you in the name ofthe Lord." He didn't out-muscle Goliath. He out-believed everyone else standing on that hillside.
One stone. One throw. The giant that had paralyzed an entire army went down in seconds, and the men who'd been frozen for forty days suddenly found their courage and ran the enemy off the field.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
You've got a giant. Maybe it's a marriage that's bleeding out, an addiction that's owned you for years, a business decision that terrifies you, a father wound that's been shouting the same insult at you since you were a boy. And like that army, you've probably been standing still, waiting for someone else to move first.
David didn't win because he was fearless. He won because he'd already settled who God was before the fight started. That's the difference between a man who freezes and a man who runs toward the battle — history with God, remembered on purpose, in the moment it matters.
There are men in still standing frozen in the valley, waiting for permission to believe God is bigger than what's mocking them.
The Encounter is built to put the stone back in their hand.
David and Goliath
Every Man Has a Giant Standing Over Him
The whole army stood frozen on one side of the valley. Forty days, and not one man moved.
Goliath was nine feet of trained killer, armor-plated, mocking the God of Israel every morning and every night — and every man with a sword in his hand stayed exactly where he was.
Then a teenager shows up with bread for his brothers and hears the taunt for himself. He doesn't have armor that fits. He doesn't have a title. What he has is a history with God that nobody else in that valley bothered to remember — the sheep he'd defended, the lion and the bear he'd already killed before anyone was watching.
"You come against me with sword and spear," David said, "but I come against you in the name ofthe Lord." He didn't out-muscle Goliath. He out-believed everyone else standing on that hillside.
One stone. One throw. The giant that had paralyzed an entire army went down in seconds, and the men who'd been frozen for forty days suddenly found their courage and ran the enemy off the field.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
You've got a giant. Maybe it's a marriage that's bleeding out, an addiction that's owned you for years, a business decision that terrifies you, a father wound that's been shouting the same insult at you since you were a boy. And like that army, you've probably been standing still, waiting for someone else to move first.
David didn't win because he was fearless. He won because he'd already settled who God was before the fight started. That's the difference between a man who freezes and a man who runs toward the battle — history with God, remembered on purpose, in the moment it matters.
There are men in still standing frozen in the valley, waiting for permission to believe God is bigger than what's mocking them.
The Encounter is built to put the stone back in their hand.
The Birth of Jesus
God Didn't Send a Memo. He Sent a Son.
No army. No throne. No announcement to the people who mattered, by the standards of the world that mattered. God entered human history through a stable, because there was no room anywhere else.
A teenage girl and a working man — a carpenter, a man who built things with his hands for a living — became the parents of God Himself in human flesh. Not because they were powerful or important, but because they said yes when nobody would have blamed them for saying no.
The first people told were shepherds. Not priests, not kings — men who smelled like the field, working the night shift, the kind of men history usually skips over. That was the point. Heaven's first invitation went to the overlooked.
Wrapped in strips of cloth, laid in a feeding trough, the Creator of the universe arrived small, poor, and unnoticed by everyone who wasn't paying attention.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
If you've ever felt like you're not important enough for God to notice — too rough, too broke, too far outside the room where things happen — the manger says therwise. God's first move in human history was toward the overlooked, not the impressive.
You don't need a title or a platform for God to show up in your life. He showed up in a feed trough in a nowhere town. He'll show up in whatever mess you're standing in right now.
Men in pews think they're too far gone or too ordinary for God to want them.
The Encounter reminds them that heaven's first move was toward men just like them.
God Didn't Send a Memo. He Sent a Son.
No army. No throne. No announcement to the people who mattered, by the standards of the world that mattered. God entered human history through a stable, because there was no room anywhere else.
A teenage girl and a working man — a carpenter, a man who built things with his hands for a living — became the parents of God Himself in human flesh. Not because they were powerful or important, but because they said yes when nobody would have blamed them for saying no.
The first people told were shepherds. Not priests, not kings — men who smelled like the field, working the night shift, the kind of men history usually skips over. That was the point. Heaven's first invitation went to the overlooked.
Wrapped in strips of cloth, laid in a feeding trough, the Creator of the universe arrived small, poor, and unnoticed by everyone who wasn't paying attention.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
If you've ever felt like you're not important enough for God to notice — too rough, too broke, too far outside the room where things happen — the manger says therwise. God's first move in human history was toward the overlooked, not the impressive.
You don't need a title or a platform for God to show up in your life. He showed up in a feed trough in a nowhere town. He'll show up in whatever mess you're standing in right now.
Men in pews think they're too far gone or too ordinary for God to want them.
The Encounter reminds them that heaven's first move was toward men just like them.
The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus
Before the Ministry, There Was the Wilderness
Jesus hadn't preached a single sermon, hadn't healed a single person, hadn't called a single disciple — and already the Father spoke over Him from heaven: "This is My Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased." The approval came before the accomplishment.
Then the Spirit led Him — not the devil, the Spirit — straight into forty days in the wilderness with no food. And that's exactly where the enemy showed up, three times, each temptation aimed at the same target: get Jesus to prove who He was outside of trusting the Father.
"If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down." Every attack started with the word "if," trying to plant doubt in an identity the Father had already confirmed.
Jesus answered every temptation with Scripture, not cleverness.
He never doubted who He was. He simply refused to let hunger, pride, or power define Him instead of the Father's voice.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
The enemy runs the same play on you. He waits until you're hungry, tired, or alone, then whispers "if" at your identity — if you were really a good father, if God really loved you, if you were really strong. Doubt is almost always disguised as a question about who you are.
You don't fight that with willpower. You fight it the way Jesus did — by knowing what God has already said about you before the wilderness ever started, and refusing to let hunger write the story instead.
Many men are being attacked at the exact place they're most unsure of themselves.
The Encounter helps them settle their identity before the wilderness, not during it.
Before the Ministry, There Was the Wilderness
Jesus hadn't preached a single sermon, hadn't healed a single person, hadn't called a single disciple — and already the Father spoke over Him from heaven: "This is My Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased." The approval came before the accomplishment.
Then the Spirit led Him — not the devil, the Spirit — straight into forty days in the wilderness with no food. And that's exactly where the enemy showed up, three times, each temptation aimed at the same target: get Jesus to prove who He was outside of trusting the Father.
"If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down." Every attack started with the word "if," trying to plant doubt in an identity the Father had already confirmed.
Jesus answered every temptation with Scripture, not cleverness.
He never doubted who He was. He simply refused to let hunger, pride, or power define Him instead of the Father's voice.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
The enemy runs the same play on you. He waits until you're hungry, tired, or alone, then whispers "if" at your identity — if you were really a good father, if God really loved you, if you were really strong. Doubt is almost always disguised as a question about who you are.
You don't fight that with willpower. You fight it the way Jesus did — by knowing what God has already said about you before the wilderness ever started, and refusing to let hunger write the story instead.
Many men are being attacked at the exact place they're most unsure of themselves.
The Encounter helps them settle their identity before the wilderness, not during it.
The Calling of the Disciples
He Didn't Call the Qualified. He Called the Willing.
Simon and his brother Andrew were doing what they'd always done — casting nets, hauling fish, making a living the only way they knew how. Jesus didn't ask for a resume. He said, "Come, follow me," and they walked away from the boats without a backward glance.
None of the twelve were clergy. No rabbis, no scholars, no men with religious credentials. Fishermen. A tax collector everyone despised. A political zealot. Men the religious establishment would never have hand-picked for anything important.
Jesus told them plainly what He was after: "I will make you fishers of men." Not recruiters of the impressive — fishers of ordinary, hurting, overlooked people, the same kind of men He was calling right now.
They left everything — nets, boats, a business their families depended on — on the strength of one invitation from a man they'd barely met.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
You may have spent years thinking you're not qualified for whatever God's stirring in your chest — not educated enough, not clean enough, not important enough. None of the men Jesus called were qualified either. He wasn't looking for résumés. He was looking for men willing to drop the nets.
Following Him will cost you something real — comfort, routine, the identity you built your whole life around. The twelve found out it was worth it. So will you.
Men sitting in church aren't waiting to become qualified before God can use them.
The Encounter calls men to drop the nets right where they are.
He Didn't Call the Qualified. He Called the Willing.
Simon and his brother Andrew were doing what they'd always done — casting nets, hauling fish, making a living the only way they knew how. Jesus didn't ask for a resume. He said, "Come, follow me," and they walked away from the boats without a backward glance.
None of the twelve were clergy. No rabbis, no scholars, no men with religious credentials. Fishermen. A tax collector everyone despised. A political zealot. Men the religious establishment would never have hand-picked for anything important.
Jesus told them plainly what He was after: "I will make you fishers of men." Not recruiters of the impressive — fishers of ordinary, hurting, overlooked people, the same kind of men He was calling right now.
They left everything — nets, boats, a business their families depended on — on the strength of one invitation from a man they'd barely met.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
You may have spent years thinking you're not qualified for whatever God's stirring in your chest — not educated enough, not clean enough, not important enough. None of the men Jesus called were qualified either. He wasn't looking for résumés. He was looking for men willing to drop the nets.
Following Him will cost you something real — comfort, routine, the identity you built your whole life around. The twelve found out it was worth it. So will you.
Men sitting in church aren't waiting to become qualified before God can use them.
The Encounter calls men to drop the nets right where they are.
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The Sermon on the Mount
A Different Kind of King, Building a Different Kind of Kingdom
The crowd expected a revolution — a king who'd throw off Rome, restore the throne, make Israel great by force. Instead Jesus sat down on a hillside and told them blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are those who mourn, blessed are the meek. Nothing about it sounded like power the way they understood power.
He told them they were the salt of the earth and the light of the world — not because of what they'd accomplished, but because of who they belonged to now. He raised the bar past behavior straight into the heart: not just don't murder, don't carry the hatred that leads there. Not just don't commit adultery, guard the eyes and the heart before it ever gets that far.
He told them to love their enemies, pray for the people who persecute them, turn the other cheek instead of demanding revenge — the exact opposite instinct of every man raised to protect his pride at all costs.
And He closed with two builders: one who built his life on rock, one who built on sand. Same storm hit both houses. Only one was still standing when it passed.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
Most men build their identity on sand without realizing it — performance, reputation, what other men think, what they can control. It holds up fine until the storm actually hits, and then it goes down fast.
Jesus is describing a completely different foundation for a man's life — one built on character instead of image, on obedience instead of applause. That's the house that's still standing when everything else gets tested.
A lot of men in your church have built impressive-looking lives on sand and don't know it yet.
The Encounter helps them find the rock before the storm does.
A Different Kind of King, Building a Different Kind of Kingdom
The crowd expected a revolution — a king who'd throw off Rome, restore the throne, make Israel great by force. Instead Jesus sat down on a hillside and told them blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are those who mourn, blessed are the meek. Nothing about it sounded like power the way they understood power.
He told them they were the salt of the earth and the light of the world — not because of what they'd accomplished, but because of who they belonged to now. He raised the bar past behavior straight into the heart: not just don't murder, don't carry the hatred that leads there. Not just don't commit adultery, guard the eyes and the heart before it ever gets that far.
He told them to love their enemies, pray for the people who persecute them, turn the other cheek instead of demanding revenge — the exact opposite instinct of every man raised to protect his pride at all costs.
And He closed with two builders: one who built his life on rock, one who built on sand. Same storm hit both houses. Only one was still standing when it passed.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
Most men build their identity on sand without realizing it — performance, reputation, what other men think, what they can control. It holds up fine until the storm actually hits, and then it goes down fast.
Jesus is describing a completely different foundation for a man's life — one built on character instead of image, on obedience instead of applause. That's the house that's still standing when everything else gets tested.
A lot of men in your church have built impressive-looking lives on sand and don't know it yet.
The Encounter helps them find the rock before the storm does.
Gethsemane
The Fight Before the Fight
Hours before the cross, Jesus took Peter, James, and John into a garden and told them plainly: "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death." This wasn't theological language. This was a man in real anguish, asking His closest friends to stay awake with Him while He faced the worst night of His life.
He went further into the garden alone and prayed so hard that Luke, a physician, records His sweat was like drops of blood. "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." He asked for a way out and then submitted anyway.
Three times He came back to His friends. Three times He found them asleep. The men He needed most in His darkest hour couldn't stay awake for one hour to pray with Him. And still He went forward. Not because the dread disappeared, but because obedience to the Father mattered more than escaping the pain.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
Every man faces his own Gethsemane — the diagnosis, the conversation he's dreading, the decision that will cost him something he doesn't want to lose. Jesus shows you it's not weak to feel the full weight of that. It's human. He felt it too.
What matters is what you do with the dread. Jesus didn't fake strength He didn't have. He prayed honestly, asked for a way out, and then chose obedience anyway. That's the model — not the absence of fear, but obedience in the middle of it.
Men have been taught to hide their dread instead of praying through it.
The Encounter gives them permission to be honest with God the way Jesus was.
The Fight Before the Fight
Hours before the cross, Jesus took Peter, James, and John into a garden and told them plainly: "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death." This wasn't theological language. This was a man in real anguish, asking His closest friends to stay awake with Him while He faced the worst night of His life.
He went further into the garden alone and prayed so hard that Luke, a physician, records His sweat was like drops of blood. "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." He asked for a way out and then submitted anyway.
Three times He came back to His friends. Three times He found them asleep. The men He needed most in His darkest hour couldn't stay awake for one hour to pray with Him. And still He went forward. Not because the dread disappeared, but because obedience to the Father mattered more than escaping the pain.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
Every man faces his own Gethsemane — the diagnosis, the conversation he's dreading, the decision that will cost him something he doesn't want to lose. Jesus shows you it's not weak to feel the full weight of that. It's human. He felt it too.
What matters is what you do with the dread. Jesus didn't fake strength He didn't have. He prayed honestly, asked for a way out, and then chose obedience anyway. That's the model — not the absence of fear, but obedience in the middle of it.
Men have been taught to hide their dread instead of praying through it.
The Encounter gives them permission to be honest with God the way Jesus was.
The Crucifixion
This Is What Love Looks Like With Nails In It
They stripped Him, mocked Him, drove nails through wrists and feet, and lifted Him up between two criminals as a public spectacle. Roman crucifixion was designed to be as slow and humiliating as possible, and Jesus endured every second of it in full view of the crowd that had demanded His death.
From the cross He said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." Not about His friends who ran. About the soldiers driving the nails. He forgave the men killing Him while they were still killing Him.
Darkness fell in the middle of the day. Jesus cried out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" — taking on, in that moment, a separation from the Father that had never existed before and would never exist again, because He was carrying the full weight of every sin ever committed.
"It is finished," He said, and gave up His spirit. Not a defeated whisper — a finished transaction.
The debt every man owes had just been paid in full.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
You've spent years carrying things you think are unforgivable — things you did, things done to you, things you can't say out loud to another man. The cross says the full price for all of it has already been paid. Not partially. Finished.
This isn't a metaphor for a hard week. It's the real, physical, brutal cost God was willing to pay so you wouldn't have to carry the weight yourself anymore. That's what your forgiveness actually cost.
Many men have never grasped what "finished" actually means for the shame they're still carrying.
The Encounter takes them to the foot of that cross and leaves it there.
This Is What Love Looks Like With Nails In It
They stripped Him, mocked Him, drove nails through wrists and feet, and lifted Him up between two criminals as a public spectacle. Roman crucifixion was designed to be as slow and humiliating as possible, and Jesus endured every second of it in full view of the crowd that had demanded His death.
From the cross He said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." Not about His friends who ran. About the soldiers driving the nails. He forgave the men killing Him while they were still killing Him.
Darkness fell in the middle of the day. Jesus cried out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" — taking on, in that moment, a separation from the Father that had never existed before and would never exist again, because He was carrying the full weight of every sin ever committed.
"It is finished," He said, and gave up His spirit. Not a defeated whisper — a finished transaction.
The debt every man owes had just been paid in full.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
You've spent years carrying things you think are unforgivable — things you did, things done to you, things you can't say out loud to another man. The cross says the full price for all of it has already been paid. Not partially. Finished.
This isn't a metaphor for a hard week. It's the real, physical, brutal cost God was willing to pay so you wouldn't have to carry the weight yourself anymore. That's what your forgiveness actually cost.
Many men have never grasped what "finished" actually means for the shame they're still carrying.
The Encounter takes them to the foot of that cross and leaves it there.
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The Resurrection
Death Lost. Everything Changed.
Early Sunday morning, women went to the tomb expecting a corpse and a stone they'd need help
moving. Instead they found the stone already rolled away and the tomb empty, with an angel telling them, "He is not here; he has risen, just as he said."
The disciples didn't believe it at first — grief and fear had them locked in a room, hiding. Then Jesus Himself stood among them, showed them His hands and His side, and ate with them so they'd know He wasn't a ghost or a story they'd talked themselves into.
Thomas refused to believe until he could touch the wounds himself. Jesus let him. "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed," He told him — a word for every man who'd come after, who'd never get to touch the scars themselves.
Over forty days He appeared to more than five hundred people at once, ate meals with His friends, walked roads with them, proving beyond argument that the tomb had lost.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
Every failure you've ever had, every place you thought was the end of the story — the resurrection is God's answer to endings that look final but aren't. If God can walk out of a sealed tomb, He can walk you out of whatever you buried yourself in.
This is the hinge everything else swings on. If Jesus stayed dead, none of this matters. Because He didn't, your worst chapter doesn't get the final word either.
Men are often living like their worst moment is the end of their story.
The Encounter shows them the tomb is empty — for Jesus, and for what they thought had buried them too.
Death Lost. Everything Changed.
Early Sunday morning, women went to the tomb expecting a corpse and a stone they'd need help
moving. Instead they found the stone already rolled away and the tomb empty, with an angel telling them, "He is not here; he has risen, just as he said."
The disciples didn't believe it at first — grief and fear had them locked in a room, hiding. Then Jesus Himself stood among them, showed them His hands and His side, and ate with them so they'd know He wasn't a ghost or a story they'd talked themselves into.
Thomas refused to believe until he could touch the wounds himself. Jesus let him. "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed," He told him — a word for every man who'd come after, who'd never get to touch the scars themselves.
Over forty days He appeared to more than five hundred people at once, ate meals with His friends, walked roads with them, proving beyond argument that the tomb had lost.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
Every failure you've ever had, every place you thought was the end of the story — the resurrection is God's answer to endings that look final but aren't. If God can walk out of a sealed tomb, He can walk you out of whatever you buried yourself in.
This is the hinge everything else swings on. If Jesus stayed dead, none of this matters. Because He didn't, your worst chapter doesn't get the final word either.
Men are often living like their worst moment is the end of their story.
The Encounter shows them the tomb is empty — for Jesus, and for what they thought had buried them too.
The Great Commission, Ascension, and Pentecost
Jesus Didn't Leave Them Empty-Handed
Before He left, Jesus gave His men a job: "Go and make disciples of all nations... teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Not a suggestion. A commission, backed by a promise.
Then, on a mountainside, He was lifted up and a cloud hid Him from their sight. Eleven men stood there watching the sky, and two angels had to tell them to stop staring and get moving — the work wasn't going to do itself.
Jesus told them to wait in Jerusalem for something else first: power from the Holy Spirit. Ten days later, on the day of Pentecost, that promise landed — a sound like a rushing wind, what looked like fire resting on each of them, and men who'd been hiding behind locked doors just days earlier suddenly preaching in the street with a boldness that wasn't their own.
Three thousand people were added to the church that same day. A handful of frightened, ordinary men had just become the beginning of something that would outlast every empire that ever tried to stop it.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
God never sends a man out on a mission without also sending the power to carry it. The same disciples who hid behind locked doors at the crucifixion were preaching fearlessly in public within weeks — not because they got braver on their own, but because the Holy Spirit showed up.
Whatever God's calling you toward — your family, your work, the men around you who need to see something real — He's not asking you to do it in your own strength. The same Spirit that filled that room is available to you right now.
Men don't need more willpower to live out their calling — they need the same Spirit that showed up at Pentecost.
The Encounter introduces them to Jesus Christ personally, not just theologically.
Jesus Didn't Leave Them Empty-Handed
Before He left, Jesus gave His men a job: "Go and make disciples of all nations... teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Not a suggestion. A commission, backed by a promise.
Then, on a mountainside, He was lifted up and a cloud hid Him from their sight. Eleven men stood there watching the sky, and two angels had to tell them to stop staring and get moving — the work wasn't going to do itself.
Jesus told them to wait in Jerusalem for something else first: power from the Holy Spirit. Ten days later, on the day of Pentecost, that promise landed — a sound like a rushing wind, what looked like fire resting on each of them, and men who'd been hiding behind locked doors just days earlier suddenly preaching in the street with a boldness that wasn't their own.
Three thousand people were added to the church that same day. A handful of frightened, ordinary men had just become the beginning of something that would outlast every empire that ever tried to stop it.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
God never sends a man out on a mission without also sending the power to carry it. The same disciples who hid behind locked doors at the crucifixion were preaching fearlessly in public within weeks — not because they got braver on their own, but because the Holy Spirit showed up.
Whatever God's calling you toward — your family, your work, the men around you who need to see something real — He's not asking you to do it in your own strength. The same Spirit that filled that room is available to you right now.
Men don't need more willpower to live out their calling — they need the same Spirit that showed up at Pentecost.
The Encounter introduces them to Jesus Christ personally, not just theologically.
Paul's Conversion
God's Not Afraid of Your Worst Chapter
Saul of Tarsus wasn't a confused seeker. He was a trained killer of Christians, dragging believers out of their homes, approving executions, hunting down the church with everything he had. He was on the road to Damascus to do more of exactly that.
A light from heaven knocked him to the ground. "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" a voice said. When he asked who was speaking, the answer came back: "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting." The man leading the campaign against the church had just been confronted by the one he was actually fighting.
He was blind for three days, until a believer named Ananias — a man who had every reason to fear him — obeyed God's instruction to go find him, lay hands on him, and restore his sight. The persecutor became the patient, dependent on the mercy of the very people he'd hunted.
Saul became Paul, and the man who once dragged Christians to prison spent the rest of his life planting churches, writing much of the New Testament, and taking beatings and imprisonment for the name he once tried to erase.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
You may believe your past disqualifies you — the things you've done, the people you've hurt, the version of yourself you're ashamed of. Paul's résumé before Damascus was worse than most men's worst day. God didn't just forgive him. He used him to write half the New Testament.
God specializes in taking a man's worst chapter and making it the launching point for everything that comes next. Your past isn't a disqualification. In God's hands, it's raw material.
Many are convinced their past is too dark for God to use them. Paul's story says otherwise.
And The Encounter puts that same road to Damascus in front of them. When is your encounter with God?
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God's Not Afraid of Your Worst Chapter
Saul of Tarsus wasn't a confused seeker. He was a trained killer of Christians, dragging believers out of their homes, approving executions, hunting down the church with everything he had. He was on the road to Damascus to do more of exactly that.
A light from heaven knocked him to the ground. "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" a voice said. When he asked who was speaking, the answer came back: "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting." The man leading the campaign against the church had just been confronted by the one he was actually fighting.
He was blind for three days, until a believer named Ananias — a man who had every reason to fear him — obeyed God's instruction to go find him, lay hands on him, and restore his sight. The persecutor became the patient, dependent on the mercy of the very people he'd hunted.
Saul became Paul, and the man who once dragged Christians to prison spent the rest of his life planting churches, writing much of the New Testament, and taking beatings and imprisonment for the name he once tried to erase.
Why This Story Still Matters to Every Man
You may believe your past disqualifies you — the things you've done, the people you've hurt, the version of yourself you're ashamed of. Paul's résumé before Damascus was worse than most men's worst day. God didn't just forgive him. He used him to write half the New Testament.
God specializes in taking a man's worst chapter and making it the launching point for everything that comes next. Your past isn't a disqualification. In God's hands, it's raw material.
Many are convinced their past is too dark for God to use them. Paul's story says otherwise.
And The Encounter puts that same road to Damascus in front of them. When is your encounter with God?
Join us at the next conference.
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