What is “Born
Again?
Open your
mind and heart read the following and try to apply it to todays modern preast,
preachers, pasters and
Evangelical
Christians that take and do not give?
In other
words a person born again must always strive to be like Jesus Christ.
Do as he did
not as you do!
THE REBIRTH
OF THE "BORN AGAIN" MOVEMENT
Dr Paul
Graunke
The election
of a "born-again" Christian president has focused attention on the
most significant movement among American Protestants.
It has also
tempted Evangelicals to become involved with the election of candidates as well
as the election to grace.
President
Jimmy Carter unabashedly confesses that he is one.
So do Senator
Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon and Congressman John B. Anderson of Illinois.
Charles Colson, former aide to Richard Nixon,
has written a
best-selling autobiography recounting how he became one.
Eldridge
Cleaver, onetime Black Panther leader, returned to the United States to face
trial on assault charges as the result of an experience that made him one.
What these
individuals
and perhaps
40 million more Americans and additional millions worldwide
profess to be
are "born-again" or evangelical Christians.
The terms
"born again" and "evangelical" are used interchangeably to
describe these Christians because of the two salient aspects of their faith.
They share in
common a highly subjective "born-again" experience, a turning point
in their lives when they committed themselves to Christ.
And they
believe in evangelism, the proclaiming of the redemptive message of Jesus'
life, teaching and atoning death
the "good news" (called euaggelion
in the Greek New Testament and later dubbed gospel by the Anglo-Saxons).
Previous to
the 1976 presidential election, evangelical Christianity had been growing
quietly but impressively for over a decade
often at the
expense of played out, mainline churches.
Indeed, some
Evangelicals had been contending for several years that they represented the
silent and overlooked majority of Protestants.
But not until
the presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter did a "great awakening"
occur among the media as they focused on Evangelicals and discovered their
numbers and influence.
So!
What is
“Born Again?
Yes
You are
correct
I am a lousy
Christian
However
I am learning
how to follow our Lord!
In other
words a person born again must always strive to be like Jesus Christ.
Do as he did
not as you do!
President
Jimmy Carter
Fake Born
Again?
President
Donald Trump
Fake Born
Again
Every modern
person calling themselves a “born-again Christian,”
While
Continuing on
as the judge of others instead of preaching Jesus Christ!