Sentences with phrase «own conversion experience»

sam stone I must be missing something because even before I had a conversion experience I still felt this existence could not simply be that of naturalism.

But around my 25th birthday I had a rather dramatic conversion experience.

You need a conversion experience to see that.»

The Confessions describes a conversion experience, a radical turnaround.

Most «seeing the light» conversion experiences can be traced to some form of epilepsy, however if, in this hypothetical, there is no trace of brain abnormality, it would still be unwise to believe such a person's account.

I had never experienced anything miraculous until my twenty - fifth birthday when I had this conversion experience.

We heralded them when they had a conversion experience, then castigated them when they failed to live up to our expectations.

Mehl - Laituri then had a conversion experience that led him to eschew violence.

Since his dramatic conversion experience age 20, Moby has thought long and hard about what it means to be a Christian.

There is little appreciation for the nature of conversion as an ongoing process made up of many steps forward and backward along the way; or, for marriage as only one option among a couple, or even a few, equally viable, equally «holy» alternatives for living out one's God - given vocation... I don't have to dig too deep into my own experience to recognize the hang - ups that this glorification of marriage and a one - time conversion experience can foster.

What was your conversion experience like?

I suppose theologians would call it a conversion experience.

I do find it incredible that in the sudden conversion she experienced, she instantly knew that Catholicism was the correct path.

The conversion experience would seem psychologically analogous to the following: A child who has been rebelling against parental authority finds the estrangement unbearable; he rushes back into the parent's arms.

Thus his conversion experience is solidified and strengthened.

The individual attention of the worker who helps «pray him through» plus the act of actually asking help from God often bring the man to a conversion experience.

After his conversion experience, he published Born Again, helping popularize the term many evangelicals use to self - identify.

Another factor in the success of this approach is its well - developed system for consolidating the conversion experience.

The dynamics of the conversion experience seem to be identical.

The mission structure provides an environment in which the conversion experience may be consolidated.

I know it was prayer that saved me but, I did not realize it until some time later after I had a conversion experience.

Typical in conversion experiences some life altering event has occured and the security of knowing God is in control brings relief.

On the one hand, there is his clear conviction that he did not become a Christian, despite his having been baptized and reared in the church, until he had a conversion experience while an undergraduate at Oxford.

In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabbles.

Whatever knowledge of the gospel Africa has, it has acquired it by revolt, as a consequence of a conversion experience.

Although their particular tactics are enormously diverse, many fundamentalist groups impose creedal tests on their followers, many have rites of passage such as conversion experiences that demarcate entry into the community, and many enforce conformity in such matters as dress, sexuality and the use of alcohol.

That was done by Saul of Tarsus, (Paul), after his conversion experience, and his tussle with the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem.

Three of them afterward described the meeting in intensely emotional terms, testifying to something like a conversion experience as Benedict listened to them one by one and spoke of sorrow, shame, and the power of repentance and forgiveness.

Was his conversion experience convincing?

The long struggle over whether a conversion experience was essential for church membership was an argument over whether the unconverted could share in the covenant relation with the converted and attain at least some of the worldly and spiritual advantages of church membership.

But now, the later revivalists saw God at work primarily in the conversion experience and in the resulting life of Christian good works.

He developed a scheme of 12 signs indicative of the genuineness of the conversion experience.

The conversion experience and its fruits were from God.

For many other Christians, the journey to faith is more gradual, although some of those who speak of a «conversion experience» were already, like John Wesley, active church members.

But I've been thinking of his conversion experience.

The spiritual conversion experienced by both of these groups is intended to carry the individual along in a «new» way of life, and it does for those...

Everyone's life walk creates a different conversion experience.

Paul is, one might say, predestined for his mission to the pagans — not only because of his learning and his spiritual gifts, but because of the path of faith he followed and his conversion experience.

I am grateful that I had a sincere conversion experience and gave my life to Jesus, and I understood that there's a God that loves me.

When we ask how Paul came to be preaching the cross of Christ, then we find that his Gospel took its origin and shape out of his conversion experience on the road to Damascus.

Journalist William Scholes, writing in the Anglican journal the Churchman, suggests that Alpha overemphasizes a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit, making it «a second conversion experience.»

For example, just because Saul had a dramatic conversion experience and fell off the horse, does not mean everyone has to have a dramatic conversion experience.

Is it a belief, a lifestyle, a set of values, a conversion experience, a member of the body of Christ, a bible believer?

In 1872 just before departing for England he had a renewal of his conversion experience.

He wants so badly to make this a story that includes a conversion experience, a story about God using sinful people to accomplish His purposes, a story about a sexually promiscuous woman who finds Jesus, that he reads too much into the text.

In spite of speaking openly about his Christian faith and conversion experience, his religious beliefs were often distorted for political purposes.

It may be a conversion experience, a spirit baptism, or speaking in tongues.

The only real difference between a Bushnell and a Moody concerned whether children must also have a conversion experience in order to know that they are Christian.

For instance, among so - called exclusive Baptists where a conversion experience is required to become a church member, young people can be expected to, have a conversion experience.

Free, There is a significant difference between Saul's conversion experience and say Tom Cruise to Scientology or Madonna to Kabbalah.