birth necessary? What actually happens in the new birth? What is our part in salvation, and what is God’s? How can a person know he or she has been born again? The gospel—is it a set of doctrines or a person? If God has done all he can and now leaves the appropriation of salvation to our willpower, how can spiritually dead people respond? It boggled my mind that once Christians passed beyond the common notion that everyone needs Christ for salvation, there was confusion and even contradiction on