Day 118: More Than Emotion

There’s another thing that’s a decision and that’s repentance. Again a greatly misunderstood word. The majority of Christians in evangelical circles at least associate repentance with an emotion, and they try to work it up. I’ve preached so many times in Pentecostal churches on some subject that convicts people, and you’ll see them come forward to the altar at the end and have a little ten minute sob and cry. They think that’s repentance, but it isn’t. And John the Baptist, when people came to him claiming to have repented he said, “Let’s see the fruit. Let’s see the change. If there’s not change, you haven’t repented. That’s your problem. I want to see the difference.”