Sentence examples for experience of conversion from inspiring English sources

Early Congregationalists had become members of the church after they could report an experience of conversion.

The experience of conversion came to be central to all of Menno's life and theology.

But the thing that I wish more people understood is that the experience of conversion came from outside in: God gets ahold of me and changes me.

It is also possible that in his family there had been a recent, painful, unresolved experience of conversion, from Catholicism to Protestantism, an experience that would have deepened his engagement with his character's plight: "Art thou contented, Jew?

A lyric from Charles Wesley's famous hymn captures the evangelical experience of conversion through saving faith in Christ alone: "My chains fell off, my heart was free; I rose, went forth, and followed thee".

LGBT rights campaign group All Out are asking people to report "gay cure" activities happening around the world – whether they have had direct experience of conversion therapy in their local community or seen it reported in the media – on the Gay Cure Watch website.

These gifts make life more bearable, but they fall short of the gifts of absolute conviction and secure dwelling identified with traditional experiences of conversion or revival" (6).

At 15 he underwent the experience of religious conversion and became a revivalist preacher.

It examines the religious faith and exaltation of Therese Martin, later to be known as the Little Flower of Jesus, in the pragmatic way with which she herself seems to have accepted the experience of her conversion.

She watched her children die, spent long periods apart from her husband, and had her entire life shaped by the political convictions of the men around her. Yet she retained the strength to record her experiences in memoir, including her experience of religious conversion on the journey back from the Caribbean to Britain.

While Catholics confess their sins to priests in order to be absolved, they are also encouraged to pray and confess in private to God, as is common among evangelicals, who tend to identify with an experience of personal conversion, a strong personal relationship with God and a need to spread the gospel.