Introduction : Augustine, Lewis, Barna, and the Bible -- The supernatural creation of spiritual life -- You are still you, but new -- We are spiritually dead -- We are willing slaves to sin and Satan -- Faith, justification, adoption, purification, glorification -- Ransomed, raised, and called -- Through the washing of regeneration -- Through faith in Jesus Christ -- Through intelligible good news -- It overcomes the world -- Regeneration, faith, love, in that order -- Freedom from the practice of sinning -- Loving others with the love of God -- Tell people the good news of Jesus Christ -- I am sending you to open their eyes -- The new birth and the new world.
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"The term born again is very precious and very crucial in the Bible. And our main concern should be to know what God intends when the Bible uses this language, so that by his grace we may experience it and help others do the same. It is of enormous consequence that we know what being born again really means. God is the great Doer in this miracle of the new birth. And he has not been silent about it. This means that he does not want us to be ignorant of what he does in the new birth. It means that knowing what he has revealed about the new birth is good for us. When Jesus said, 'You must be born again, ' he was not sharing interesting and unimportant information. He was leading us to eternal life"--Page 4 of cover.