More Wed. musings

I just finished Ryles book on Regeneration. I really enjoyed it. I really think that there are many people who call themselves christian that are not. Its the difference between being a professing christian and being a possessing Christian. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fruit inspector, but if someone is truly born-again there should be evidence of that in their life. Know this, there is no regeneration apart from being given the Holy Spirit and when He comes and lives in us are whole lives will change. We will start seeing sin for the ugliness it is. The things we used to love we now hate and the things we used to hate we now love. As Ryle puts it "we need a new nature". It all starts with repentance and faith, apart from that its all self effort and it cannot save you.

I think there also is a delusion in America especially about what it means to be born-again. It says in Scripture "always be ready to give an answer to those who ask about the hope that lies within you". Anybody asking lately? Probably not because we try so hard to show them that we are just like them. We should look more like "strangers and aliens in a foreign land" instead of trying to show Bob and Betty down the street how cool we are and how cool Jesus is.