Calvinist Experientially Long Before Informed Doctrinally, by CJ Mahaney
"I was a calvinist experientially long before I was informed doctrinally. I had no question that God's activity preceeded my response. I had no question that I was acted upon by God before I acted in response to God. Now I have come to learn that I was incapable of acting in response to God until I was first acted upon by God due to pervasive depravity in my life. But at that moment I knew that God had acted upon my heart, and that something internal had changed."
-C.J. Mahaney
I quoted this in my post yesterday on my testimony, Calvinism, and John Piper.