Decisional Regeneration is the false teaching that the sinner decides when he will be born again (How on earth could someone believe this in light of John 3:8: "The wind blows wherever it pleases," etc.). Usually, the sinner makes a "decision for Christ" by praying the "Sinner's Prayer" and receiving Christ into his heart as his Lord and Savior. In the Bible, however, God calls sinners to repent and believe the gospel (Mark 1:15), not "bow their heads, close their eyes, and repeat after me..." Also, in order to believe, the sinner must first be born again (1 John 5:1 - consult the ESV, which is a literal translation of the Bible that reveals the tense of the Greek verbs). The new birth is emphatically not the result of the will of man (John 1:12-13). I find hte NIV translation extremely interesting: "children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God." Some might say that a human decides to be born again, and then God causes them to be born again. This interpretation is ruled out by the simple observation that being "born of God" is contrasted with being born "of human decision." If this is a new concept for you, I recommend this video.
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