Repentance is more than a verbal apology. But rather than digressing into addressing the problem we have in the Western Church in protecting ourselves and our families from things that would do us good, perhaps to understand how to apply Jesus’s teaching here we should have a clear understanding of repentance in the Christian walk. For instance, I might decide not to serve a ministry in what I deem a dangerous part of the city out of a desire to protect my family. Like most of what Jesus says, loving God more than my family is easier said than done. (John 6:60) And for me, these verses in Matthew 10 have always been some of the most difficult, next to what he says in his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7:21-23 (the “I never knew you” passage). Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Matthew 10:34-39 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. By Mike Joyce Repentance November 21, 2019
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