H.A. Baker

Joining a church, singing hands, reading or saying prayers, working in or for the church, preaching from the pulpit, or giving all one’s body to be burned has nothing whatever to do with the new birth. The new birth is something that God gives by grace, regardless of works. The finest pulpit orator, the most formal churchman, the most protesting protestant has no more hope of heaven than the most reckless centre unless he be born again.