Conversion

I. Introduction

Many often we listen the word ‘conversion’ in the church. May people used to say: oh, this person needs to be converted. Some even use the word but do not understand it’s meaning and importance for us as christians.

Lexham Research Lexicon of the Greek New Testament (ἐπιστροφή)

conversion ⇔ turnabout — turning from one set of beliefs or behaviors to another; understood as literally turning away from some direction toward another direction in order to give one’s attention to something

The New King James Version Chapter 1

And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”