title: What Is Regeneration? (Basics of the Faith)
author: Matthew M. Barrett
description: &#34;The doctrine of effectual calling is at the heart of what it means to confess that Jesus Christ is the sole and sufficient Savior of spiritually dead sinners. Matthew Barrett does a great job of condensing this doctrine into a readable form that all can understand.&#34; --<b>Timothy George</b>
zlib_text: RESTORED
  E X P E R I E N C E L I F E
  W I T H J E S U S
  L E A D E R ’ S
  G U I D E
  
  T H E P R I M A R Y P U R P O S E
  F O R
  T H E B O O K
  Restored was written to help new and struggling believers get established alive and
  free in Christ through genuine repentance and faith in God. True believers are chil-
  dren of God (John 1:12), and the Apostle Paul said that it was for freedom that Christ
  set them free (Galatians 5:1), but most are not living as though they are. Some of this
  is due to a lack of teaching or improper instruction, but the major cause is a lack of
  repentance. Jesus taught that we should “repent and believe in the gospel” (Mark
  1:15), as did the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:20). 
  Restored is an expansion of the “Steps to Freedom in Christ” (Steps), which is a
  counseling tool used all over the world developed by Dr. Neil T. Anderson. The theol-
  ogy and methodology are explained in his book entitled Discipleship Counseling
  (Regal Books,2003). The process is proving to be incredibly 