Monday, October 02, 2006

Regeneration Precedes Faith

Well, I preached last night on Romans 10. I must admit that I was disappointed with my presentation; however, it has spurred on some good conversations, and I trust that the Lord will use it for His glory.

On another note, I found the following on another person's BLOG. I thought it would be helpful considering some conversations I've had on this blog in regards to regeneration....


"We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead."
- R.C. Sproul


Were you born again because of your faith? Or did you have faith because you were born again? Before you answer, read JOHN 3 carefully and then read THIS ESSAY by R.C. Sproul.

5 comments:

The Tiffinian said...

I was at MBBC 1998-2002.

AgapeTheologian said...

Hey,


It's kinda funny that we both switched our blogs to the exact same thing. I thought yours was differnt, but since we ARE related, it's ok.

Even though your sermon didn't come off as your best, hopefully you will use it as a learning experience. Depend on God! I will want to read on regeneration in a later time. But it does interest me!


In Prayers,


-Justin

Anonymous said...

I personally thought that your message went quite well, and that you were clear and understandable. I definitely believe that God needs to give you a regenerative spirit before you can believe in Him. The reason being that a spiritually dead person cannot raise himself from his dead postion so as to be able accept God's salvaion. Thank you for both the quick reference to John 3 and also the R.C. Sproul quotation. I hope that this gets some attention and, and that it helps bring some light to the subject, and also that it will help people to really think through their beliefs.

Jonathan Moorhead said...

Of course regeneration precedes faith!
:-)

Shep Shepherd said...

What!? Don't you guys know that Lazarus wasn't dead, he was just faking? It was all a conspiracy to get Calvinism started in the early church!





Joking.

Regeneration precedes faith in my opinion.

Check out my latest post on my blog though to see that not everyone agrees...

God bless,

A. Shepherd
The Aspiring Theologian