Before he became a Christian, Augustine lived a pleasure filled life. Many years after his conversion, he was approached by a prostitute he once knew, who called out his name. When he ignored her, she said, “Augustine, you know me. Don’t you remember me?” Augustine said, “Yes, I know you, but you do not know me. The Augustine you knew is dead.” He could say with Paul, whom God changed from a murderer of Christians, to a missionary,
“I am a new creation; behold all things have become new.”
(2 Cor. 5)