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The Church of Wells (formerly the Church of Arlington, or You Must Be Born Again (YMBBA) Ministries) is an American religious group considered by some to be a cult [1] located in Wells, Texas. The group is led by Sean Morris, Jacob Gardner, and Ryan Ringnald, former street preachers who are all in their early thirties.
That, plus his unabashed embrace of the label “born-again Christian,” helped him win primary elections in states with large evangelical populations, according to “Redeemer.”
To be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelical Christianity, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit.
The founder of the movement, David Brandt Berg (1919–1994), was a former Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor. [12] Berg started in 1968 as an evangelical preacher with a following of "born-again hippies" who gathered at a coffeehouse in Huntington Beach, in Orange County, California. In 1969, after having a revelation "that California ...
Greg Sr. is a solidly built man with a firm handshake who talks and moves with an air of crisp authority. ... He became a born-again Christian in high school and later a Baptist minister. He, too ...
The fundamental requirement of Pentecostalism is that one be born again. [97] The new birth is received by the grace of God through faith in Christ as Lord and Savior. [98] In being born again, the believer is regenerated, justified, adopted into the family of God, and the Holy Spirit's work of sanctification is initiated. [99]
The Way notably believes that once a person is born again, they receive "holy spirit" and cannot lose it through any sinful acts. [71] Tithing one's net income to the church is a recommended minimum, taking the example from Abraham's donation to Melchizedek, as well as the instruction in Malachi 3:7–12. [72]
Rosenberg was born in 1967 near Rochester, New York. He has stated that his father is of Jewish descent and his mother was born into a Methodist family of English descent. [6] [7] His parents were agnostic and became Born-again Christians when he was a child in 1973. [8] At the age of 17, he became a born-again Christian and identifies as a ...