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‘Return to Me’: A Biblical Theology of Repentance is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you” (Zechariah 1:3). Repentance concerns the repair of a relationship with God disrupted by human sin. All the major phases of church history have seen diversity and controversy over the doctrine of repentance. The first of Luther’s famous ninety-five theses nailed to the church door in Wittenburg in 1517 stated that “the entire life of...

Repentance is not just the gateway into relationship with the triune God; it is the pathway for that continuing relationship, as Luther wrote: ‘the entire life of believers should be one of repentance’.4 The Christian life involves a lifelong relationship, and as long as we are in this fallen world repentance will be an enduring part of our lives. This is no different from saying that we are positionally sanctified at the outset of our Christian life because of Christ’s work
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