Regeneration & The Holy Spirit

"In the work of communicating the Spirit to our souls, raising them from death to life, we have no kind of fellowship with Christ, but only what lies in a passive reception of that life-giving, quickening Spirit and power. We were but dead bones on which the wind blew and made them live (Ezek. 37) We were like Lazarus in the grave. Christ called and we came out because his call was accompanied with life and power."

-John Owen, Communion With God, Pg. 149