A “crisis” is a convergence of various factors in a person’s life that leads a person to “quest” for a religious conversion. In Turning to Jesus I discuss and illustrate ten “catalysts” or “kinds of crisis” that can lead a person to convert. In our study of the ERC, we discover that the ERC may be led to convert as a result of the following crises: mystical experience, illnesses and the need for healing—and here I include any sort of psychological condition
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