Last week, my friend David Willis posted some thoughts about regeneration. There is something to be said about the fact that if a person is saved, it should be readily visible in that person's life. His thoughts echoed what I had been reading recently:
Much is at stake in seeing the new birth in true biblical proportions. Heaven and hell are at stake – and a church in the world now that acts more like Jesus and less like the culture aground it. Which brings us back to where we started, namely, the claim that born again Christians have lifestyles of worldliness and sin that are indistinguishable from the unregenerate. I don’t think so. 1 John 5:4: “Everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.” But my conviction is not rosy news for the church. It implies that there are millions of church attenders who are not born again.
That started my creative juices flowing, and I penned this little ditty (with apologies to The Who)
Did your conversion really take?
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
Or is your Christianity fake?
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
True repentance produces fruit
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
You can’t get to Heaven by another route.
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
Don’t be tryin’ to water it down
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
Grow a spine, get doctrinally sound
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
This is regeneration
This is regeneration, baby
What part of Acts 2:38 do you not understand?
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
Baptism’s part of salvation’s plan
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation
I'm just talkin' 'bout r-r-regeneration
Why don't you padded guys f-fade away?
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
And don't try to dismiss what we all s-s-say
(Talkin' 'bout regeneration)
I'm not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation
I'm just talkin' 'bout r-r-regeneration
This is regeneration
This is regeneration, baby
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