The New Birth: Another Look at the Biblical Standard

The scripture has much to say about those who receive Jesus Christ into their hearts and are born-again. In his second letter to the Corinthians. the apostle Paul says these people are actually new creations. He says the old has gone, the new has come, and then he says about this new creation that all things are of God. In his letter to the Ephesians, he says that the primary purpose for the teaching and preaching we receive from men and women of God is for us to grow up to act like Jesus and do the works that he did while he walked the earth.

When we look at the church today and we look at the families, the marriages, the lives of those who say they are followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, what is it that we are seeing? What are we understanding about the New Birth? What do we mean when we say Born Again? What does the Bible mean when it uses that terminology? What does it look like when a person is “Born of God?” This essay may not answer all your questions but it will cause you to think about the new birth in ways that maybe you have not in the past, and get you into a lively conversation with Holy Spirit.