“In fear-based repentance, we don’t learn to hate the sin for itself, and it doesn’t lose its attractive power. We learn only to refrain from it for our own sake. But when we rejoice over God’s sacrificial, suffering love for us – seeing what it cost him to save us from sin – we learn to hate the sin for what it is. We see what the sin cost God. What most assures us of God’s unconditional love (Jesus’s costly death) is what most convicts us of the evil of sin. Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.”
- Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods (New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2009), 172.
Great quote!
ps. just need to correct a typo in the title (repentance)
Interesting perspective. In that love/joy based repentance, we can then experience a love based forgiveness knowing that we have been forgiven out of love and not out of hatred for an action committed against a commandment scribed as a School Master and not an Executioner.
I think.
Interesting
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