Encountering Jesus

In Acts 9, Saul the terrorist meets the resurrected Christ and is completely remade — not improved, but rebuilt from the ground up. When we really encounter Jesus, He doesn't just fix our problems; He changes our purpose and our perspective, and then sends us out as change agents to the people around us.

God cares deeply about what we're going through, but He cares even more about the state of our hearts. Through the Israelites at Marah and Jesus at the well with the Samaritan woman, we see that true healing isn't about explanations or fixed circumstances — it's an encounter with Jesus that transforms us from the inside out, giving peace no matter what comes.

Pastor Scott walks through John 9 to show that meeting Jesus for real never leaves a person unchanged. The healed blind man couldn't explain all the theology, but he could point to what God had done in him — and that's the same posture, humble, obedient, and honest, that opens the door for God to keep transforming our lives today.

Jesus meets us in our brokenness, the way He met the woman at the well, and offers grace that doesn't wait for us to clean up first. But knowing Him is only half of it; finding real purpose means stepping past our comfort zones today, in the mission field of our own home, job, and relationships, instead of living for a "someday" that robs us of the life God has for us now.