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  A LACK OF REPENTANCE PREACHING HAS FILLED MODERN CHURCHES WITH HYPOCRITES
  by Rolfe Barnard
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Summary: Rolfe Barnard emphasizes the critical need for true repentance
in order to combat hypocrisy and ensure genuine faith within the church.

Topics: "True Repentance", "Genuine Faith"
Scripture References: Luke 13:3, Acts 3:19, Romans 2:4, 2 Corinthians 7:10, James 4:8

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Rolfe Barnard emphasizes the critical importance of genuine repentance
in the Christian faith, pointing out that many in the church today lack
a true understanding of the holy demands of God and the necessity of
surrendering completely to Christ. He highlights the detrimental effects
of a shallow, sentimental faith that avoids facing the reality of sin
and the need for obedience to God. Barnard warns that without genuine
repentance, salvation is missed, and lives will ultimately fail to
reflect the transformative power of God.

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...I am dead certain that the mess we are in religiously and spiritually
now, the love-sick so-called "church" people, the sickly sentimental
crop of so-called "believers" who are enthusiastic about a fair or a
frolic but are conspicuously absent from prayer meeting -- I am sure
that this is due to the fact that our churches are full of people who
are not born right...

Somehow or another they got into our professing churches without ever
having come face to face with the holy demands of a Holy God, and being
brought in the face of those demands to the place of throwing up all
hands of self-effort and self-confidence and turning one's self over
lock, stock and barrel to the Sovereign Christ. Somehow or another they
have missed the main business. Somehow or another they got in what we
call the church without turning in abhorrence and in utter conviction
against sin, without turning from their sin to obedience unto God.

And, of course, their lives fail! If we dodge this step [repentance], we
miss out on salvation!...

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