to heaven. I knew that my conversion had been a work of God, not some kind of wager. Twenty years later I found myself face to face once again with the reality of illumination. As a pastor to a group of young adults, I was sitting in my office with a young couple having an informal visit to get to know one another better. I wanted to hear from them how their dating relationship was going. I did not have an easy, natural way to break into conversation, so since I really did not know how these two