private, and interior,” wrote Gene Edward Veith, “with little attention to theology or to the church.”19 We have made conversion primarily about ourselves, a finding of ourselves and a fulfilling of ourselves. We’ve made it a journey of self-discovery rather than a journey of God discovery. Yet conversion is not about us, but about God’s overture of love, without which we are devoid of sufficient motive or power to change and be changed. True “conversion” is to lay hold of Christ, or rather, as Paul corrected