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The Feasts of Repentance: From Luke-Acts to Systematic and Pastoral Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In gospel proclamation today, the critical New Testament element of repentance can be far too often ignored, minimalized, or dismissed. Yet John the Baptist, Jesus himself, and those he commissioned to spread his gospel all spoke of the urgent need to repent. Michael Ovey was convinced that a gospel without repentance quickly distorts our view of God, ourselves, and each other by undermining...

is covenantal (e.g. Gen. 17:8; Exod. 19:5), as is the motif of the name of God (Exod. 3:13–15). Thus God’s covenant and his given word found the appeal to mercy, and paradoxically God’s covenant judgment grounds hope, since, if God keeps his covenant curse, then he will surely be faithful to the covenant promise to restore those who turn to him. This establishes repentance as having a legal element, for in Daniel 9 it rests on a rule or norm, the rules of the covenant. These rules have been broken.
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