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Scrooge: A Picture of True Repentance?
Here’s a good blog to read to end the year. Mark Hadfield wrote about repentance today on his blog madetopraisehim:
Many people coming into churches are taught to tell Jesus that they’re sorry for their past so that their mistakes can be blotted out. Now personally, I don’t think that’s the repentance Jesus talked about when He talked about the Kingdom Of God. I think that’s regret: a step on the road to repentance maybe, but not repentance. I think repentance is to completely change our system of thinking and our system of living. Our only response to the Good News of the Kingdom can be to start thinking and living like people of the Kingdom.
Amen Mark!
He finishes off his thoughts about repentance by offering Charles Dickens’ Scrooge as a picture of true repentance. *Top
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Posted: December 31st, 2007 under Repentance.
Comments
Comment from Michael
Time January 2, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Happy New Year Mark. May GOd continue to bless your ministry in a major way this year.
Comment from JC Smith
Time January 26, 2008 at 9:03 am
I agree. I have a sermon on my site somewhere that is about this, I think it is tited “The Two Kinds of Repentance”.
Scrooge is a great example. I use Jean Valjean from Les Miserables as mine. After the priest forgave him for stealing and actually added more to him- he was so shamed by the love that he became obsessed with paying back a deed that he could never repay through the actions of his life.
Amen. May we all become real displays of repentance and not just worldly sorrow.
Blessings, Michael.
JC
Comment from Mark H
Time January 1, 2008 at 3:59 am
Thanks Michael. Have a gr8 ‘08!