“How did you manage to turn out the way you did?”

This was the question my wife asked yesterday at lunch after our friend described the family she grew up in. The answer is that she committed her life to Christ in her freshman year at George Fox College (now University).

Most people in my circle of Christian friends grew up in Christian homes and have no firsthand experience with the contrast between life before Christ and after. From time to time I need to see illustrations of what redemption and transformation mean.