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我们可以想象，扫罗在前往大马士革的路上与耶稣相遇的经历一定是令人敬畏的。他后来说，当耶稣向他显现时，他感觉自己就像一个未到产期而生的人（“非正常出生的人”）。他被一道刺眼的光照射，摔倒在地，当他认识到自己曾迫害神的教会，追赶被钉十字架的弥赛亚的信徒——而此时弥赛亚已经在天上掌权——这一切都太超乎想象了！

被弥赛亚荣光刺瞎了眼睛的扫罗不得不被人牵着手走入大马士革的路。几天后，主派信徒亚拿尼亚去看望扫罗，他领受了圣灵，瞎眼得了医治，并受了洗礼。

《使徒行传》向我们显明，人们能够以各种各样的方式信耶稣。圣灵是自由的，不刻板行事。有时，圣灵用经文来打动人心。有时，人通过他人的讲述听到福音。有时，主藉着异梦或异象说话。在某些情况下，就像扫罗一样，与主相遇可能很有戏剧性，甚至是令人畏惧的，而且几天后伴有异象和圣灵降临。也有一些情况，甚至整个家庭都会信而受洗，也包括那些家中从小在信仰中成长并一生都会跟随的孩子。但所有的这些，都是圣灵在作工！

As we can imagine, Saul's experience of meeting Jesus on the way to Damascus must have been terrifying. He said later that when Jesus appeared to him, he felt as if he were like a child taken from the womb too early ("one abnormally born"). Being stopped by a blinding light, falling to the ground, and learning that he had persecuted the church of God by chasing followers of the crucified Messiah—who was now ruling in heaven— was all too much!

Saul, blinded by glory, had to be led by hand along the rest of the way to Damascus. Then, a few days later, the Lord sent Ananias to visit Saul, and he received the Holy Spirit, was healed from blindness, and was baptized.

The book of Acts shows that people come to faith in Jesus in many different ways. The Spirit is free and does not follow a formula. Sometimes the Spirit uses words of Scripture to move a person's heart. Sometimes a person hears the good news through someone else. Sometimes the Lord speaks through a dream or a vision. In some cases, as with Saul, the encounter may be dramatic and even terrifying, followed by a vision and the coming of the Spirit a few days later. In other cases, whole households are baptized, including children who will grow in faith throughout their life. But in all of these ways the Spirit is at work!