Conversion stories: Boova's Sunday morning and Dan's stealing club
Boova (addressed on air) tells his conversion story in full: living with his girlfriend in his brother's basement, angry at God over his parents' deaths, he woke early one Sunday with a sure sense that God was calling him to church; he showed up, wept through an Esther sermon, was baptized in a portable baptistry that happened to be there that day, hugged a man named Joe, drove home soaking wet, broke up with his girlfriend, and told the hosts first. Dan (addressed on air) tells his: a fourth-grade stealing club ended the day his Sunday-school teacher called him "Danny" at her grocery store while he had a stolen ice-cream sandwich in his sleeve — a definite God moment calling him out of sin. Mike (addressed on air) adds that his own baptism came without a flashpoint moment, just an unquestioned conviction, refined later through smaller moments of being grabbed by God.
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Chat questions: what must one do to be saved?
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