Month: March 2026

Stop being ridiculous with born again 2.0

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Many believers are obsessed with death and dying and often they’re off on the wrong foot.  When believers are born again or converted they do not merely acquire a new set of behaviors or find themselves free from unhealthy patterns of behavior. They are actually renewed, made new, from above. Believers are not contributors to conversion: Christ does that in a sovereign manner apart from the will or willpower of any human being. So why are so many people talking about dying to themselves every day as if they did not die with Christ and were transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light, and removed from death row as it were to complete freedom and vindication? If you are one of those who think a person can be born again again this is for you.

Not accepting Christ as the truth

Paul talks about people who came to see or recognize God but they didn’t configure their minds to embrace him as absolutely unique. That response resulted in darkness enveloping their mind and God gave them up to think whatever they wanted to think and to behave in whatever way they wanted to behave. God is decidedly not a creature, is unlike human beings and angels.

Didn’t Christ say that everyone who has taken a bath only needs to wash his feet?

Jesus said to [Peter], “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” (John 13:10)

Nobody needs to be born again again. Only the totally brainwashed people think like that. I will tell you how deadly that avenue is.

We know that God expects diligence from the followers of Jesus and circumspection to interact with other people. There was no command at the creation of human beings “You shall not sin”, so to argue that sinlessness was a goal is ridiculous beyond measure.  If the same conditions are extant in the new covenant unveiling we have no reason to see anything besides failure.

On the wrong road again

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Baptism counts can be useful for some things, but on their own they are a very unreliable measure of genuine evangelistic or discipleship success.

Talk about baptisms in your church and the only time that you will hear a Thank God or a Hallelujah is when the numbers of baptisms are mentioned, no matter how small that number.  Do you realize that this is the cover story for an operation off the rails?

Most churches are not making disciples of jesus, but they are doing is actually having members to the church based on the acceptance of the churches doctrinal statement.  It is time for a true confession from the leaders of most of the churches that are claiming either to be the true church or to have the Spirit of God as their distinctive feature.

Imagine that a church can point to its large conventions or its weekly fellowship meals as signs of evangelistic or pastoral success, and you have a revolving snapshot of churches in failure mode.