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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...

also be prompted by sinful attitudes and patterns of the leadership of that community. We must return in the end to the essential relational character of the theology of repentance throughout the biblical witness. Repentance is fundamentally a return to intimate fellowship with the triune God. This is made possible because of the gracious act of this God through the gift of the Son and the Spirit who invite us into the fellowship of the Trinity. This relational return to our Creator and Redeemer
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