If our problem is really sin – a fundamental breach in human existence – then repentance, not self-improvement, is the first requirement. This is the biblical view of the foundations of morality. The prophets, John the Baptist, Jesus, and Paul all beckoned their hearers to a new life by calling them first to give up the old in repentance (Mark 1:15; Luke 13:3,5; Acts 26:20; Rom. 2:4; 2 Cor. 7:9-10).
Repentance is the absolutely inescapable first step of the Christian moral life. Without repentance, the Christian moral life is impossible.
This is an excerpt from the book Vision and Character by Craig R. Dykstra.
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