You attend any evangelical church and hear during the sermon, that you need to be born again. To the unbeliever, that prompts any thinking person, to wonder what in the world the preacher is talking about. Even among believers, the meaning of being born again means different things depending upon what church/denomination they belong to. So, for you having a firm belief in the meaning of being born again may be foreign to you.
When you think about being born again from strictly an academic standpoint, you realize it must mean that something must happen to you, that you did not have before. That event is based on something Pascal once said. Pascal, the seventeenth-century mathematician, philosopher, and author, declared, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which only God can fill through His Son, Jesus Christ.” As you realize this fact, you are on the threshold of a huge discovery. That discovery is that Jesus Christ fills that vacuum in your life; at that moment you are born again.
Scripture supports the above decision that you just made. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away, behold new things have come” (1 Corinthians 5:17). To be “in Christ” is to have Jesus Christ inside yourself. You do this by realizing you are a sinner and that Jesus died on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins. Asking Jesus on that premise to forgive your sins, means you are “in Christ,” and you are a Christian.
You do not have to be a Christian long, before you encounter other people who call themselves Christians, but differ from what you just learned. Being born again, according to the Scriptures, means you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior for the forgiveness of your sins. Yes, it is as simple as that!
