Hi, this is John. And today on Theocast, we're going to have a lively conversation about repentance before and after salvation.

Is repentance required for salvation? And why is repentance often weaponized? We use it as a source to question people's salvation when it should

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Welcome to Theodcast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ. Conversations about the Christian life from a reformed pastoral and confessional perspective.

Throw them all in there, John. Throw them all in there. Your host today, Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina. And I am John Moffat, the pastor of

Grace Reform Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee. And Justin, it is good to be with you again, my friend.

We were discussing before the podcast about all the different episodes that we want to record.

And it's good. We're excited about a lot of upcoming episodes, stuff related to things we're studying, stuff related to our

sermons, stuff related to theological culture. So all of that to say, Justin, today's a good one.

So why don't you take us in? Yeah, happy too, man. Yeah, we were talking about everything from

Harvests of righteousness toness to Wedding Garments.

That's right. Good conversation. Stay tuned. That's common. We'll see. We'll see what makes its way on to a podcast. That's right. Yeah, today's conversation is an important one.

We're talking about repentance, which is a big word, biblically, but it's also a big word in the evangelical church. It's a buzzword even. And we, like we often try to do with respect to theological matters, with respect to the gospel,

we're going to try to remove some clutter from repentance, the clutter that's thrown on top of

repentance and try to point out ways that are less than helpful in terms of the ways that

repentance is discussed and things that are communicated to the

saints and ways that repentance is perhaps misunderstood. We want to do this humbly, want to do it

charitably. But our hope for this conversation, like pretty much every conversation we have,

is that it's going to point the believer to Jesus and what Christ is accomplished in our place

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