Djela apostolska i Poslanice svetoga Pavla se podudaraju i slažu u temeljnoj točki: Uskrsli se obratio Pavlu, pozvao ga na apostolat, učinio ga je pravim apostolom, svjedokom uskrsnuća s posebnom zadaćom da naviješta evanđelje poganima grčko-rimskome svijetu i time njegovo poslanje obilježio univerzalističkom notom. Pavao je istodobno naučio da, unatoč neposrednosti svoga odnosa s Uskrslim, mora ući u zajedništvo Crkve, da se mora dati pokrstiti, te da mora živjeti u skladu s drugim apostolima.Događaj kod Damaska iz temelja je promijenio Pavlov život. Zahvaljujući Božjem pozivu, Pavao ulazi u apostolat i služenje. On ne doživljava sebe kao apostola u nekom općenitom smislu, nego „apostolom pogana“ i time se ponosi. Pavao je propovjednik za „sve narode“. Prema egzegetskom prikazu do izražaja će doći Pavlova neshvaćenost, pa čak i od onih od kojih je očekivao podršku. Pavao je prešao preko toga s namjerom da svim narodima ponese Evanđelje. Svaki poziv nešto dodaje i izabranju i poslanju, a to je osoban zov upućen najdubljoj savjesti pojedinca i dubini srca kojim postaje novi čovjek.Bilo mu je važno što Pracrkva misli o njegovom djelovanju koje utječe na njezin život.On zna da ga je Krist učinio svojim oruđem kako bi donio poganima spasenje, priveo ih vjeri i svjestan je da svoje evanđelje nije primio po čovjeku nego mu se Isus Krist otkrio (usp. Gal 1,11-12). Onmu je direktno navijestio, te zna da je bio odabran od majčine utrobe (usp. Gal 1,15-16). Onome koji ga pozva svidje se to objaviti u jednom povijesnom trenutku i to sa svrhom da svim poganima navijesti spasenje (usp. Rim 15,18).

Apostols' Acts and Letters by St. Paul concur in the basic point: the Resurrected addressed to Paul, he called him into apostolate, made him a real apostol, a witness to the resurrection with a special task to proclaim the Gospel to pagans in Greek-Roman world and by that he marked his mission with universality. Paul had, at the same time, learnt that, despite his direct relationship with the Resurrected, he had to enter the community of the Church, that he had to bebaptised and that he had to live in harmony with other apostols. The event at Damask changed Paul's life from the foundations. Thanks to God's call, Paul enters the apostolate and the serving. He doesn't see himself as the apostol of general meaning, but as 'the apostol of pagans' and is proud of that. Paul is an evangelist for 'all people'.According to the interpretation of the Biblictexts, Paul's miscomprehension was expressed, even by those which he had expected the support from. Paul dismissed that with the intention to communicate the Gospel to all people. Each call adds something to the election and the mission, and this is a personal call initiated to the deepest conscience of the individual and to the depth of the heart by which the individual becomes a new man. The opinion of the First Church about his activity which affected its life was very important to him. He knows that Christ made him his tool to bring the salvation to pagans, to bring them to faith and is aware that he didn't receive the Gospel by a man, but Jesus Christ himself revealed it to him (Gal 1, 11-12). It was proclaimed to him directly and he knows that he had been chosen from his mother's womb (Gal 1, 15-16). The one who called him was pleased to announce that in a certain historical point with the purpose to proclaim salvation to all pagans (Rom 15, 18).