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New Life in Christ: What Really Happens When You're Born Again and Why It Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

The single most important event in a person's life is the new birth. Yet, this is also one of the most neglected doctrines in the church. Many Christians would be hard-pressed to describe exactly what the new birth is, let alone what it means to the rest of their walk with God. What happens when we are born again? Does everything in our lives change immediately? Is it just a kind of spiritual...

The new birth gives the life of God—divine life, eternal life, supernatural life—to a previously empty, lifeless soul. Where once there was only a hollow existence, divine life was created in the soul—real life, new life, abundant life. For the first time, a person begins to live as God intended him or her to live. Jesus said, “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10). This new birth gives personal knowledge of God by creating spiritual life within the heart. The accompanying
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