“…if you are repentant, produce the appropriate fruit” (Matthew 3:9).
For many, repentance is a word that belongs to yesterday. It’s one of those slippery words. We hear the word and we speak the word without attaching any real meaning to it.
For some, there is a vague understanding of repentance as something that is done when one is caught. But repentance is far more than blurting out “I’m sorry” when one gets caught doing something deemed wrong by conventional society.
For some, there is a vague understanding of repentance as the act of turning back to
God after having turned away from Him.
For some, there is a vague understanding of repentance as involving a change in attitude or a change of mind or turning over a new leaf. And there are elements of truth in such notions.
The Gospel truth is that genuine repentance means much more than changing one’s mind or feeling sorry for one’s sins or telling God we…
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