Did you know? (Sunday, May 4, 2025)

The born-again experience can be sudden and dramatic. It can involve a dramatic revelation, a life-changing epiphany, as in the case of Saul on the road to Damascus, an experience through which he became Paul. Such dramatic conversion continues to this day; some people can name a day or even an hour when it happened. There is no reason to doubt that such “sudden conversions” occur.

But for the majority of us, being born again is not a single intense experience, but a gradual and incremental process. Dying to an old identity and being born into a new identity, dying to an old way of being and living into a new way of being, is a process that continues through a lifetime. The Christian life as it matures is ever more deeply centered in the Spirit-that is, centered in the Spirit of God as known in Jesus, the Spirit of Christ.