Finally alive
New birth, Barna, and the Bible
Jesus’s declaration that we must be born again (John 3.7) is either deluded or devastating to the one who would be captain of his soul.
Not many biblical realities are better designed by God to reveal our helplessness in sin. ‘The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit’ (John 3.8). It is the Wind, not we, who finally rules the soul.
