Reflections
The priority f Repentance
Repentance is the primary plank to every Christian foundation, and without this there can be no continuance in the Christian life. Repentance means a change of mind, in which a sinner changes his mind about what he believes to what he knows what God believes. As the root of sin is self-centredness , it is from this we must turn if we are to experience the salvation of God in the way the New Testament unfolds it.
Charles Finney, the great revivalist of a previous generation saw and witnessed the genuine conversion of thousands of souls because of his insistence on the need for a real and radical repentance. He presented the claims of Jesus Christ in a way that people had to repent in order to become Christians. His way was no slip into the Kingdom by the- side door type of evangelism but a confrontation with sinners that led them to see that the only way into the Kingdom of God was through the door of real repentance.
The word Repentance implies the conviction that God is wholly right and the sinner wholly wrong. When a person comes into the Christian life with this conviction clearly established he discovers a significant principle at the beginning of his christian experience which enables him, in any subsequent encounters with God, to agree with the Almighty and believe that He is always wholly right and never wrong. We do not do men and women a service unless we confront them with the real issue of repentance, for without it there can be no meaningful continuance in the christian life.
The priority f Repentance
Repentance is the primary plank to every Christian foundation, and without this there can be no continuance in the Christian life. Repentance means a change of mind, in which a sinner changes his mind about what he believes to what he knows what God believes. As the root of sin is self-centredness , it is from this we must turn if we are to experience the salvation of God in the way the New Testament unfolds it.
Charles Finney, the great revivalist of a previous generation saw and witnessed the genuine conversion of thousands of souls because of his insistence on the need for a real and radical repentance. He presented the claims of Jesus Christ in a way that people had to repent in order to become Christians. His way was no slip into the Kingdom by the- side door type of evangelism but a confrontation with sinners that led them to see that the only way into the Kingdom of God was through the door of real repentance.
The word Repentance implies the conviction that God is wholly right and the sinner wholly wrong. When a person comes into the Christian life with this conviction clearly established he discovers a significant principle at the beginning of his christian experience which enables him, in any subsequent encounters with God, to agree with the Almighty and believe that He is always wholly right and never wrong. We do not do men and women a service unless we confront them with the real issue of repentance, for without it there can be no meaningful continuance in the christian life.
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