The Gift of Repentance

It's so important in our day and age where sin is excused and where evil is called good and good is called evil, that we as a church really understand what is at stake if we do away with the doctrine of repentance. Repentance is not just a one-time thing you do when you get saved and go on living your life. Repentance is a crucial marker in the lives of God's people. In other words, repentance is ongoing and life changing in the Christian life. Repentance is a command (we see that replete throughout Scripture), but repentance is also a gift.

In our series on Jonah, we'll see in chapter 3, as Jonah preaches to the Ninevites, that repentance comes by the means of the preached Word (vv. 1-4); and repentance is displayed (vv. 5-10).