What Happens in the New Birth

Here is John Piper's answer to the question, "What happens in the new birth?"

1. What happens in the new birth is not getting new religion but getting new life.
2. What happens in the new birth is not merely affirming the supernatural in Jesus but experiencing the supernatural in yourself.
3. What happens in the new birth is not the improvement of your old human nature but the creation of a new human nature--a nature that is really you, and is forgiven and cleansed; and a nature that is really new, and is being formed by the indwelling Spirit of God.

Finally Alive, p. 28.