new life in Jesus Christ, and came into union with the living God through Him (Rom. 5:1). Jesus promised that, by being “born again,” men and women would find their proper relationship with God and savingly enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5–16; 14:6). The early Christians proclaimed this simple but startling message about Jesus. Every major religion of the world has claimed that its “founder” had unique insight into the eternal truths of life. But Christians claim far more, for Jesus Himself told