Repentance

[Wabco]

The dreaded R word that is not popular, and is not preached as often in churches today.
God has not changed....why have the churches stopped preaching this topic? People are not even aware, moral compasses are haywire.
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/...ion/repent.htm

[marcelle19]

The dreaded R word that is not popular, and is not preached as often in churches today.
God has not changed....why have the churches stopped preaching this topic? People are not even aware, moral compasses are haywire.
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/...ion/repent.htm

Sad to say, such is very often true of most churches.

The article you linked to seems to cover it well, though I did not read it all the way through.

Perhaps it is because people want to feel and think that they are acceptable to God on their terms, taking the fact that He is perfect, infinite love as negating the fact that He is perfect, infinite righteousness and justice also, and will not tolerate sin coming to him on its own terms, seeking to be accepted because He is love, and forgetting that He will never accept or condone sin in any shape, form or manner - I seem to be running into that a lot these days.

Universalism, in it's many twisted forms, is again gaining a strong hold on the hearts of many who are piling up teachers to themselves according to what they want to hear, and not what God has said (and the Scripture cannot be broken - John 10:35).

Wonder how such people interpret that passage, in the context of the entire chapter?

Jesus is quite clear about what He is saying, but man will try to pervert the gospel to allow for his sin.

[aTruster]

The question must be asked how many people have had the experiance of Biblical repentance? would they know the difference between Godly sorrow and sorrow as the world knows it? How many have been through the trials that bring repentance to the mind? Is the sifting as wheat by Satan just a teaching or a reality in the the experiance of sanctification?

Blessings, H.

[iamowen]

The dreaded R word that is not popular, and is not preached as often in churches today.
God has not changed....why have the churches stopped preaching this topic? People are not even aware, moral compasses are haywire.
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/...ion/repent.htm

It is time we got back to the true Gospel and not the false one so often heard ! We are picking unripe fruit today and the end result is that it spoils ! To put it bluntly "We by our unscriptual and callous use of the sinners prayer are sending many if not most to an eternity thrust away from the Presence of God" Or more bluntly we are sending them to hell

[Onesiphorus]

Amen

[streetsinger]

The dreaded R word that is not popular, and is not preached as often in churches today.
God has not changed....why have the churches stopped preaching this topic? People are not even aware, moral compasses are haywire.
The Doctrine of Repentance In Salvation

I believe that many see this word in the wrong context, they see it as an action, a turning away, from a specific sin, the problem arises when they realise that they are bound by the sin in question and have no power to overcome it. In this situation, it's deliverance that they need.
Repentance means to turn and walk in the opposite direction, to turn from the world and embrace the kingdom of heaven. In Biblical Hebrew, the idea of repentance is represented by two verbs: שוב shuv (to return) and נחם nicham (to feel sorrow). When one turns and embraces the Kingdom, their sins enter the light and become visible. At this point it becomes apparent that they need to be dealt with, those that have no hold can be walked away from, but those that hold us bound can only be dealt with through prayer. I have often heard well meaning Christians confront a brother or sister regarding sins that bind. and accuse them of unrepentance, little realising that the brother or sister are already being accused by the accuser who bound them in the first place. I was once busking in Hastings and had stopped for a smoke, at the time I was bound in the habit. A Christian was passing and asked me if I thought that smoking was edifying to God. I answered that I didn't think it edified God and asked him to deliver me; He got the message.

[farouk]

Romans 2 makes it clear that it's 'the goodness of God, that leadeth thee to repentance'.

The Lord Jesus Himself preached, 'Repent, and believe the Gospel'. (Mark 1)

[DeaconDan]

Romans 2 makes it clear that it's 'the goodness of God, that leadeth thee to repentance'.

The Lord Jesus Himself preached, 'Repent, and believe the Gospel'. (Mark 1)

Repentance implies morality, morality is hate - by modern standards.

[farouk]

DD:

Well, I would be more concerned if what goes as truth according to the professing church, had become indistinguishable from what the world has to say.

It's to do with the pilgrim nature of the church, really.

[Onesiphorus]

Dear farouk ,absolutely ,unfortunately repentance has been twisted to infer confession ;which itself has been perverted ;of your personal sins ,whereas the term to repent simply translates to change ones mind ,

Repent and be baptised ...it is interesting that all the original versions of the bible ,the geneva and the authorised ...even the modern NIV ,,do not say repent of your sins ...they just say repent ...the only example is the "new living" which really is just a revamped living bible ...so no need to say any more really