1.   Both aim to change society, but the tool of megachurch ministers is personal conversions, not partisan politics.

2.   Al Gore spoke of a personal conversion experience and proclaimed himself born again.

3.   Evangelicals stress personal conversion through faith in Jesus Christ, adherence to Scripture and proclaiming the Gospel message.

4.   They believed strongly in individual change, personal conversion of the heart, and consequently they remained wary of social movements, political involvement and institutional reforms.

5.   They form a natural constituency for Bush, a United Methodist who, with his story of a personal religious conversion, speaks a language familiar to evangelical Protestants.

6.   Wesley stood in great contrast to the staid and proper Church of England of his own background when he preached the need for personal conversion.