1. Repentance comes on account of suffering, loss, failure, and death. It happens when the promise of forgiveness of sin given in Jesus’ death is proclaimed to us down-and-outers.
  2. The gospel promise is that God in Christ knows exactly what your temptations are and still bids you find protection from them in him.
  3. All the piety, rigor, and discipline presented to the world by the believers, the General knew, was done out of fear and the denial of God’s grace