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Thinking Differently About Repentance
Added 7/7/2009
Posted by Doug Seletzky at 3:35:40 PM
“What must we do to be saved? To find God we must repent of the things we have done wrong, but if that is all you do, you may remain just an elder brother. To truly become a Christian we must also repent of the reason we ever did anything right. ….We must learn how to repent of the sin under all our other sins and under all our righteousness – the sin of seeking to be our own savior and Lord.” We must admit that we’ve put our ultimate hope and trust in things other than God, and that in both our wrong doing and right doing we have been seeking to get around God or get control of God in order to get hold of those things.
It is only when you see the desire to be your own savior and lord - lying beneath both your sins and moral goodness – that you are on the verge of understanding the Gospel and becoming a Christian indeed. When you realize that the antidote to being bad is not being good, you are on the brink. If you follow through, it will change everything: how you relate to God, self, others, the world, your work, your sins, your virtue. It is called the new Birth because it is so radical.” P. 77 “The Prodigal God” Tim Keller
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