No one thinks that we preach a gospel without repentance, and yet do we? I believe we do at staggering proportions. We just don’t say it as such.
-But if you call sin a sin, someone will chime up “we need to be loving.” Of course, but it’s like to call sin a sin is automtically implied as unloving.
– We do not deal with sin in the church. People living together in church? Fine. Sex before marriage? No big deal. Alternative relationships? We may or may not say something about it.
The very very first message of Jesus was “repent for the kingdom of God is near.”
Repentance from sin is the heart of the gospel. In fact, without the truth of sin, we cannot understand the gospel. And if there is no repentance from sin, there is no gospel.
Of course people will struggle. Of course with unbelievers we deal differently. But when people in the church have unrepentant, persistent sin and we do nothing? Say nothing? No loving confrontation? Then we are preaching a sinless gospel with is no gospel at all.
