----- Original Message -----
From: Debbie Sawczak
To: 'Lance Muir'
Sent: February 21, 2006 14:23
Subject: FW: Fw: Continuing repentance In other words, David does not seem to have taken the
point about penance and our modern psychological equivalent.
And probably both views of repentance are true--both
kinds are happening. The constant re-orienting, the constant checking the
compass and correcting for deviation on the one hand, and the punctiliar
turnings on the other.
D
From: Debbie Sawczak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:57 PM To: 'Lance Muir' Subject: RE: Fw: Continuing repentance I understand what he is saying about the one-time turn, but
I don't think this is what Victor/Luther meant. They mean something more like
that funny little cliche people used to say about Romans 12:1: the problem with
a living sacrifice is that it keeps crawling off the altar. In other words, we
tend to actually turn off the track, and have to turn again in order to get back
onto it. Not the track of salvation or reconciliation, but the track
of living (proceeding with our fifth act of the play, as it were,
making our way through life in this world) out of our relationship to Christ,
oriented to him. I would even say that sometimes, our turning off the track is
a stumbling into the morass of self-willed morality.
Is JD also making the point that repentance is not a
mournful act? Am I understanding him aright? If so, I heartily agree. Repentance
is not the same as remorse or regret. Turning back to the right
direction, turning back into harmony and intimacy with Christ, is surely a
joyful act!
D
From: Lance Muir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:16 PM To: Debbie Sawczak Subject: Fw: Fw: Continuing repentance ----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lance Muir
Sent: February 21, 2006 12:39
Subject: Re: Fw: Continuing repentance David writes: If we really were suppose to be in a constant state of
repentance, this last phrase has no meaning. Is such were so, we should
then all be sad, mourning, without joy.
I have found, over the years, that Daivd does not appreciate a difference
between "confessing" and "repenting." The comments of James
4:8 have to do with "repentance," in the mind of David and that is why he
says what he does in the above. He does not seeem to consider thte fact
that James is a leter written to those who have already "turned
around." If you are always respenting, then, you are always in
sorrow.
If repentance is more than the point in time we turn around, if it extends
to the walk extending from this "repenting," how is it possible that
repentance is not on-going?
John -- -- -- |
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