WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE?
By: Dean Robinson
C. H. Spurgeon once made the statement: "Brethren, we shall not adjust our Bible to the age, but
the age to the Bible."
We are living in a day and age where man is taught to think good thoughts, high thoughts,
wonderful thoughts about himself. Within the last 20 years or so there has been a covert invasion in
Christianity in America without hardly a whimper of protest. This invasion can best be described as
"Christian" psychology which is nothing more than watered-down humanism.
While there are millions of people searching for answers to their complicated problems created
by their increasingly complex lives, psychology comes along and attempts to answer and solve man's sin
problems and its consequences through the building up and restoration of man's self- esteem and self-image.
We are told today to get in touch with our inner self and ask the question: "How do you feel about yourself?"
The bottom line is, it doesn't amount to a hill of beans what wethink or feel about ourselves, but what does the Bible say and teach.
This matrimony between psychology and Christianity has created an unholy alliance which is
producing some strange children that are permitting, promoting, and preaching deceiving, dangerous, and
damnable false doctrines. This diabolical psycho-babble of self-love is sweeping through churches today among
self-seeking men in a self-centered society whose greatest problem is a desire to worship at the altar of
self. The apostle Paul warned us that one of the characteristics of the last days would be that
"men shall be lovers of their own selves"(2 Tim.3:2).
I'm afraid many so-called fundamental Baptist churches and preachers have fallen into the trap
of teaching this mushy self-worth propaganda that seeks to camouflage itself in robes of charity and
tolerance. Churches and preachers alike are abandoning their God-called purpose of holding up the mirror of
God's Word and graphically revealing to man what he really looks like in the sight of a holy God. The missing
message in modern-day preaching is the biblical doctrine of repentance where a sinner is convinced and
convicted of his exceeding sinfulness and lost condition.
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