The Doctor: Christians are Non-Reptilian

So you do not become a Christian in cold blood, unmoved, undisturbed.  You do not sit down in a detached manner and say, ‘Well, I have agreed with that doctrine, and therefore I am a Chrsitian.’  Not at al!  You have been through these stages – conviction, repentance, fear, desire for deliverance, recognition of Him, casting yourself upon Him, thankfulness and praise, glorying in Him, greeting His truth, desiring to know more and more about it!  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Vol. 10, p. 174