It is a fact, unhappy but undeniable, that repentance nowadays rarely gets mentioned in evangelism, nurture, and pastoral care, even among evangelicals and Christian traditionalists. The preoccupations of stirring congregational excitement, sustaining believers through crises, finding and honing gifts and skills, providing interest-based programs, and counseling people with relational problems have displaced it. As a result, the churches themselves, orthodox and heterodox together, lack spiritual reality, and their members are all too often superficial people with no hunger for the deep things of God J.I. Packer, _Rediscovering Holiness_, in _The J.I. Packer Collection_
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 09:29:25 +0000
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