ROCKINGHAM, Nova Scotia, October 12, 2019 – If spiritual rebirth is the most important and necessary change that humans can undergo while on Earth, why do we rarely – if ever – hear anything about it in the churches?

Why are people excited about births and sad about deaths and giddy about marriages and depressed about break-ups and divorces, while spiritual rebirth – conversion – is absent from their emotional radar?

Why do so few people who identify as Christian (including pastors) even know what spiritual rebirth means?

The answer is: the worldly church. The worldly church is to blame for misinterpreting spiritual rebirth and for downplaying the importance of conversion as a necessary step to becoming a Christian. The worldly church has become the blind leading the blind, just like the synagogues in Jesus’ day. How can the worldly church teach about spiritual rebirth if it has no idea what it means? (more…)