No book has more transformed the course of human history than Paul’s epistle to the Romans.
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Throughout church history, sinners have come to faith in nearly every conceivable way and through the most unlikely people.
Justin Martyr, one of the earliest Christian apologists, was evangelized by an elderly man on a beach. A young John Owen found Christ through listening to a substitute preacher. And the light of salvation has shone in good weather and bad. John Newton, the slave-trader who eventually penned “Amazing Grace,” was converted in the hull of a ship during a thunderstorm. Charles Spurgeon accepted Christ when a snowstorm led him to a small Primitive Methodist chapel, where he heard the words of Isaiah 45:22: “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.”
