Legalistic remorse says, ‘I broke God’s rules,’ while real repentance says, ‘I broke God’s heart.’
Legalistic repentance takes sin to Mt. Sinai, gospel repentance to Mt. Calvary.
Legalistic repentance is convicted by punishment, gospel repentance becomes convicted by mercy.”
– Timothy Keller, Church Planter Manual
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Great definitions. I'm going to send a copy of this on to my dad. He and I talked quite a lot about legalism and I think he would enjoy reading this.
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That's good to hear Lois
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