The experience of conversion came to be central to all of Menno's life and theology.
Early Congregationalists had become members of the church after they could report an experience of conversion.
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.
The conciliatory tendency of evangelicalism and its almost complete preoccupation with "heart religion" and the experience of conversion largely denuded it of any solid theological structure, thereby opening the door to a new theological current that subsequently became known as modernism.
My seminar, "Conversion Narratives," looks at the experience of conversion from historical, sociological and anthropological perspectives.
Purpose To evaluate the initial clinical experience of conversion from bevacizumab or ranibizumab to aflibercept in wet AMD patients.
Finally, both D.D. and W. underwent experiences of religious conversion (hers, perhaps, was the more profound) that left their political preferences essentially unchanged.
But when he got it, the overriding impression left by Burchill's predictably vitriolic retribution was not the extent of the divide between these two old sparring partners, but how much they had in common – and not just because both have made reference to recent experiences of religious conversion.
