As part of the library renovation at our seminary, bar codes were added to all student IDs.
When I checked out my first book, the librarian assigned me a code, entered information into the computer, and said I was "saved." Returning later, a different librarian, who was an Episcopal priest, asked if I'd been "converted." I told him I'd not only been converted, but I'd been assured I was saved. Grabbing the fishbowl from the counter, he smiled as he asked, "Yes, but have you been baptized?"
—Cynthia Sever, Rochester, New York. Christian Reader, "Lite Fare."
Today's Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "CONVERSION".
Jeremiah 13:23 (NIV)
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
Matthew 13:23 (NIV)
"But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."
Romans 6:3 (NIV)
Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Galatians 2:20 (NIV)
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
