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May 15, 2013

Repentance AND Forgiveness

TomSteagaldThere is a couplet in Luke 24:47 that seems simple enough, on the one hand, and not surprising on the other: Jesus says that “repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed…to all nations.”

Call it the “full” gospel: repentance and forgiveness, and not one without the other. Only, what gets proclaimed is very often one or the other, even one without the other, and the result not really “gospel” at all.

I grew up in a church where “repentance” was the sermon. We more or less masochistically gathered for read more

 
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