Anyone who has been looking for a new job recently will be well aware of the need to update your CV (résumé) with all the skills you have learnt through the years. These include abilities picked up from one sort of job which can be used in another. Transferable skills, they call them.
A pretty good example of these can be found in the story of Saul. According to a commentary on Acts that I stumbled across a few weeks ago, Saul was essentially a 'bounty hunter', tasked with the job to track down and take down all the Christians that he could find, 'dead or alive'! You would need to have initiative, local knowledge, good contact with the authorities and commitment to the task at hand.
Just imagine then the impact of his experience on the Damascus road (Acts 9). It must have been awesome, truly life-changing. And career-changing! He then took all of his commitment, skills and training and turned them to the service of God. He turned from Saul The Bounty Hunter to Paul The Apostle. Transferable skills, indeed.
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