The Highway Forums Announcements What's New on The Highway website? "Phoney Repentance, Abundant Mercy" - R. Ellsworth

One of the major problems of the church today is ‘phoney repentance’. Multitudes have walked down the aisle, mouthed the right words, and joined the church only to become what is delicately called ‘inactive members’. All kinds of explanations have been offered for this sad state of affairs. Some attribute the problem to ineptness in ‘follow up’. . .

In this penetrating and challenging article, Roger Ellsworth examines the nature of true biblical, spirit-wrought repentance using Ahab as an example of one who appears to be repentant but who in fact lacks the necessary criteria of it. Ellsworth's concern is that the churches today are filled with "Ahab-like" individuals who profess to be Christians but who lack the fundamental requirement of true repentance and unfortunately are thus self-deceived.

Read this article here: Phoney Repentance, Abundant Mercy

For later reading, this article can be found in "Calvinism and the Reformed Faith" in the Soteriology section.

In His service and grace,