Sentences with phrase «need for repentance»

In the evangelical tradition, such a turning happens when individuals see the magnitude of their sin and recognize their extreme need for repentance and forgiveness.

The first is the permanent need for repentance.

He reminds his church, week after week, of the need for repentance and the opportunity for grace.

How could that be as John from before birth was on target to proclaim the need for repentance and coming of Christ.

Second, Jesus believed in the reality of sin, the need for repentance, and a real hell where people weep and gnash their teeth.

That means definitely that he had a conviction of the heinousness of sin and the need for repentance and reparation.

To comment on our current situation, the failure to take sin seriously and with it the need for repentance is one of the major weaknesses of modern society and with it the modern church.

It's particularly difficult when our culture no longer recognizes the existence of sin and the need for repentance, or when sin and personal identity are conjoined.

Second, since sin carries with it the connotation of danger to the sinner, to identify certain actions as sins is to call attention in a strong way to the need for repentance and change for the good of the sinner.

But the dangers of minimising the consequences of sin, bypassing the need for repentance, or accelerating the pathway to restoration, are deep.

But Paul did eventually end with a clear statement of the need for repentance and of Jesus» resurrection.

About all they could do was reach into their hearts and acknowledge the whole people's need for repentance, «even though only symbolic persons enact their crimes» (April 17, 1968).

«But I did not mention the proud, envious, gluttonous, angry, greedy, blamers and scrutinizers in the body of Christ who have equally fallen but their sins are acceptable in our culture so they do not even realize their sin or need for repentance.

In Spencer's words, «given Trump's patchy and idiosyncratic knowledge of the Bible, his marital and sexual history and his disavowal of the need for repentance, one would have assumed that America's Christians... would have found little reason to support [him].»