What is an example of conversion?

John Snyder explains in this video that earlier in his life, he didn't know God. He spent a weekend with a friend and the friend talked about Christ. God used these conversations. He understood that he didn't really know God and he didn't understand the severity of his sin. 

For the first time, he realized that he was a sinner and that there was nothing that he could do to merit salvation. He realized that at that moment, he could walk away and remain in unbelief or surrender his life to God. Ultimately, he was saved by being conquered by the supreme attraction of Christ. 

Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NKJV) - "Thus says the Lord: 'Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord."

I was a stranger to the God that I was talking about. Eventually this led to a crisis and I went to an older Christian friend who just set me down and he spent I spent the weekend with him and he just sat me down and he just talked to me about Christ and the work of Christ. And at the time he didn't really understand that I wasn't a Christian at all. I was a hypocrite. But when he talked about Christ, God used that.

I could see for the first time that the words I was using about Jesus Christ were real. I could see that the statements that I was saying about the need of man and his sinfulness was real. And for the first time, those words came crashing against my life in a way that they had never done before. So I could see the realities of Christ on the cross bearing my particular sin. That the hammer of God's justice was coming down and I feared that it would come on me and I felt for the first time in my life it really ought to come on me.

It was right. It was just for me to be punished if only God's reputation could be put or made right. But instead Christ intervenes by the plan of the Father. He takes the blow for me and there was nothing I could do. No more bargaining, no more saying to Christ, well if you'll do this for me, if you'll forgive me for this, if you'll overlook this, then I'll do better here or there.

I was so humbled by the sight of Christ on the cross as this friend talked to me, that I realized that it would be a great offense to God on top of all my sin to try to tell him that I could help Christ pay for this. So I was only left with one option either I could walk away in unbelief or if I believed it I could just give him myself not as a payment but as thank you. So for me in conversion wasn't being told I could go to heaven, it wasn't being told I wouldn't be in trouble for the way I lived, it wasn't being given a list of things I should do and all the benefits I would receive, it was being conquered, just utterly conquered by the supreme attraction of Jesus Christ.