Conversion Process

Can you remember your birthday?  Let’s see…my first memory actually involves a three-wheeled plastic ride-on bike that I got for Christmas one year.  Nope, I can’t seem to “reach back” that far into my memory.  I CAN however tell you about my spiritual birthday. 

It was a Wednesday night.  I had just finished listening to a lesson in my Bible class over the Ethiopian eunuch.     I remember finding my dad downstairs and telling him that I wanted to be baptized.  He started scurrying around; politely brushing past people that were asking him questions (he was the Education Minister at the time for a church in
Bossier City).  I don’t remember the actual baptism, but I DEFINITELY remember what happened after I came out of the water.  Dad hugged me.  He told me he loved me. 

Is that the end of the story?  Not hardly.  It’s not really the beginning, either.  The “conversion” experience is more of a process than it is a “moment in time.”  Yes, the point of baptism is where we come into contact with the blood of Jesus.   It is there that God washes us clean.  What happens before that?  What about after? 

Think to your own experience in “meeting Jesus.”  Who helped you to “build” on your faith before your baptism?  Who helped after?