Born again

===Methodism===
[[File:Camp meeting of the Methodists in N. America J. Milbert del M. Dubourg sculp (cropped).jpg|thumb|Methodist preachers are known for promulgating the doctrines of the [[#Methodism|new birth]] and [[entire sanctification]] to the public at events such as [[tent revival]]s and [[camp meeting]]s, which they believe is the reason that God raised them up into existence.<ref name="Gibson">{{cite web|url=https://ucmpage.org/sgca/wesley01.htm|title=Wesleyan Heritage Series: Entire Sanctification|last=Gibson|first=James|publisher=South Georgia Confessing Association|language=en|access-date=30 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529053529/http://ucmpage.org/sgca/wesley01.htm|archive-date=29 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>]]

In [[Methodism]], the "new birth is necessary for salvation because it marks the move toward holiness. That comes with faith."<ref name="Joyner2007">{{Cite book |last=Joyner |first=F. Belton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5wH-h0WQ0aEC&pg=PA39 |title=United Methodist Questions, United Methodist Answers: Exploring Christian Faith |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0664230395 |page=39 |quote=The new birth is necessary for salvation because it marks the move toward holiness. That comes with faith. |access-date=10 April 2014}}</ref> [[John Wesley]] held that the New Birth "is that great change which God works in the soul when he brings it into life, when he raises it from the death of sin to the life of righteousness."<ref>''Works'', vol. 2, pp.&nbsp;193–194</ref><ref name="Joyner2007" /> In the life of a Christian, the new birth is considered the [[first work of grace]].<ref name="Stokes1998">{{Cite book |last=Stokes |first=Mack B. |title=Major United Methodist Beliefs |publisher=Abingdon Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0687082124 |page=95 |language=en}}</ref> In keeping with [[Wesleyan-Arminian covenant theology]], the ''[[Articles of Religion (Methodist)|Articles of Religion]]'', in Article XVII – Of Baptism, state that [[baptism]] is a "sign of regeneration or the new birth."<ref>{{Cite web |year=2004 |title=The Articles of Religion of the Methodist Church XVI–XVIII |url=http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=1651 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427002238/http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=1651 |archive-date=27 April 2006 |access-date=10 April 2014 |website=The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church |publisher=The United Methodist Church |quote=Article XVII – Of Baptism: Baptism is not only a sign of profession and mark of difference whereby Christians are distinguished from others that are not baptized; but it is also a sign of regeneration or the new birth. The Baptism of young children is to be retained in the Church.}}</ref> ''The Methodist Visitor'' in describing this doctrine, admonishes individuals: "'Ye must be born again.' Yield to God that He may perform this work in and for you. Admit Him to your heart. 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.'"<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uEAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA137 |title=The Methodist Visitor |publisher=Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. |year=1876 |page=137 |quote="Ye must be born again." Yield to God that He may perform this work in and for you. Admit Him to your heart. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."}}</ref><ref name="RicheyRowe1993">{{Cite book |last1=Richey |first1=Russell E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1vuAAAAMAAJ |title=Perspectives on American Methodism: interpretive essays |last2=Rowe |first2=Kenneth E. |last3=Schmidt |first3=Jean Miller |date=1993 |publisher=Kingswood Books |isbn=978-0687307821 |access-date=10 April 2014}}</ref> [[Methodist theology]] teaches that the new birth contains two phases that occur together, [[Justification (theology)|justification]] and [[Regeneration (theology)|regeneration]]:<ref name="Emmanuel2002"/>
{{blockquote|Though these two phases of the new birth occur simultaneously, they are, in fact, two separate and distinct acts. Justification is that gracious and judicial act of God whereby a soul is granted complete absolution from all guilt and a full release from the penalty of sin (Romans 3:23–25). This act of divine grace is wrought by faith in the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). Regeneration is the impartation of divine life which is manifested in that radical change in the moral character of man, from the love and life of sin to the love of God and the life of righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 Peter 1:23). —Principles of Faith, [[Emmanuel Association of Churches]]<ref name="Emmanuel2002">{{cite book |title=Guidebook of the Emmanuel Association of Churches |date=2002 |publisher=[[Emmanuel Association]] |location=[[Logansport, Indiana|Logansport]] |pages=7–8 |language=English}}</ref>}}