In Acts 26:20 Paul describes the gospel as proclaiming that people “should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with repentance”. If you are a regular reader of my blog you will have noticed that I keep going on about the centrality of repentance. The reason I do this is that it was central to all the preaching in Acts, and so lacking in most of our preaching today. If you think you are proclaiming the gospel, but are never preaching repentance, then you are not preaching the gospel. But let’s look at it more positively. We are all living life wrong, living life independent of God with all the terrible consequences of that. We all need to change and we are all guilty. God has declared that if we do repent and put faith in Christ then He will forgive us our sins and through the Holy Spirit start a work of transformation in our lives. There is no other gospel.
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