{"id":1453,"date":"2008-11-18T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2008-11-18T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T12:00:51","slug":"deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/11\/18\/deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline is Tonight at Midnight Pacific!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you need more encouragement to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.please-reconcile.org\/sign-the-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\">sign<\/a>, here are a few poignant statements about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.please-reconcile.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Please-Reconcile.org<\/a> project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Mercied\" href=\"http:\/\/themercied.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/first-cast-out-beam.html\" target=\"_blank\">Becca<\/a> (for those who feel <em>detached<\/em> from Bob Jones University and its racism)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brokensilence.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/14\/please-reconcile-the-fear-of-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa<\/a> (for those who are tentative about the socio-cultural consequences of signing)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/karagraphy.com\/racial-reconciliation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joy <\/a> (for those who are unsure about the spiritual impact of racism)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kbonikowsky.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/07\/bob-jones-university-no-apology-necessary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kay <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bgodwin.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/bju-urged-to-cease-standing-without.html\" target=\"_self\">Ben<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=30734248315&amp;id=509368433&amp;index=0\" target=\"_blank\">Jack<br \/>\n<\/a> (on facebook)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=30868823414&amp;id=541654530&amp;index=0\" target=\"_blank\">Roanna<\/a> (on facebook)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=44998554201&amp;id=793300724&amp;index=0\" target=\"_blank\">Tim<\/a> (on facebook)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joshandloraena.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/please-reconcile-its-time-to-crawl-over.html\" target=\"_blank\">Loraena<\/a> (for those who think there&#8217;s no theological basis for such pleas)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lairofsavage.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/please-reconcile.html\" target=\"_self\">Paul<\/a> (for those who think BJU&#8217;s interracial dating prohibition was never a big deal)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewThread&amp;entryID=201707&amp;type=schools&amp;schoolID=4297&amp;viewType=0&amp;schoolLevel=7&amp;Mytoken=33A4D356-1DB7-40A2-A65A45ACA55D8D2E85571603\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a> (for those who still don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a big deal)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/karagraphy.com\/2008\/11\/18\/please-reconcileorg-xvii-alma-mater-mea-culpa-me-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joy again<\/a> (if you are <em>still<\/em> not convinced.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about confession and repentance the last few days. I didn&#8217;t realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dyWqm3hCMC0C&amp;pg=PA22&amp;lpg=PA22&amp;dq=john+calvin+confess+sin&amp;source=web&amp;ots=vRSh1-4u0U&amp;sig=96fslBPiv2jX80Tgp3bAw3UirQo&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=7&amp;ct=result\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Calvin<\/em> was the innovator<\/a> who changed the ecclesiastical wording in corporate confessions from &#8220;I&#8221; to &#8220;we.&#8221; Confessing sin isn&#8217;t about remembering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/06\/29\/dumb-things-i-gotta-do-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">a long laundry list of missteps, goofs, unkindnesses, and near misses<\/a>. It&#8217;s about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/07\/03\/if-jesus-came-to-my-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel<\/a>! And it&#8217;s not that we confess in order to get God&#8217;s blessing. No, the confessing <em>is<\/em> God&#8217;s blessing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calvin500blog.org\/2008\/09\/01\/john-calvin-on-piety-part-ten\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Repentance is the fruit of faith and prayer. Luther said in his Ninety-Five Theses that all of the Christian life should be marked by repentance. Calvin also sees repentance as a lifelong process. He says that repentance is not merely the start of the Christian life; it is the Christian life. It involves confession of sin as well as growth in holiness. Repentance is the lifelong response of the believer to the gospel in outward life, mind, heart, attitude, and will.<\/p>\n<p>Repentance begins with turning to God from the heart and proceeds from a pure, earnest fear of God. It involves dying to self and sin (mortification) and coming alive to righteousness (vivification) in Christ.\u00a0 Calvin does not limit repentance to an inward grace, but views it as the redirection of a man\u2019s entire being to righteousness. Without a pure, earnest fear of God, a man will not be aware of the heinousness of sin or want to die to it. But mortification is essential because, though sin ceases to reign in the believer, it does not cease to dwell in him. Romans 7:14-25 shows that mortification is a lifelong process. With the Spirit\u2019s help, the believer must put sin to death every day through self-denial, cross-bearing, and meditation on the future life.<\/p>\n<p>Repentance is also characterized by newness of life, however. Mortification is the\u00a0 means to vivification, which Calvin defines as \u201cthe desire to live in a holy and devoted manner, a desire arising from rebirth; as if it were said that man dies to himself that he may begin to live to God.\u201d\u00a0 True self-denial results in a life devoted to justice and mercy. The pious both \u201ccease to do evil\u201d and \u201clearn to do well.\u201d Through repentance, they bow in the dust before their holy Judge, then are raised to participate in the life, death, righteousness, and intercession of their Savior. As Calvin writes, \u201cFor if we truly partake in his death, \u2018our old man is crucified by his power, and the body of sin perishes\u2019 (Rom. 6:6), that the corruption of original nature may no longer thrive. If we share in his resurrection, through it we are raised up into newness of life to correspond with the righteousness of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The words Calvin uses to describe the pious Christian life (reparatio, regeneratio, reformatio, renovatio, restitutio) point back to our original state of righteousness. They indicate that a life of pietas is restorative in nature. Through Spirit-worked repentance, believers are restored to the image of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you need more encouragement to sign, here are a few poignant statements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[107,364,391,579,590,613],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speak","tag-bob-jones-university","tag-interracial-marriage","tag-john-calvin","tag-racial-reconciliation","tag-reconciliation","tag-repentance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deadline is Tonight at Midnight Pacific! - A Time To Laugh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/11\/18\/deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Camille Lewis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/11\\\/18\\\/deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/11\\\/18\\\/deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Camille Lewis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e93a8c9ec8fb8b926471114158437f82\"},\"headline\":\"Deadline is Tonight at Midnight Pacific!\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-11-18T12:00:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/11\\\/18\\\/deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":622,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e93a8c9ec8fb8b926471114158437f82\"},\"keywords\":[\"Bob Jones University\",\"Interracial Marriage\",\"John Calvin\",\"Racial Reconciliation\",\"Reconciliation\",\"Repentance\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Speak\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/11\\\/18\\\/deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/11\\\/18\\\/deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2008\\\/11\\\/18\\\/deadline-is-tonight-at-midnight-pacific\\\/\",\"name\":\"Deadline is Tonight at Midnight Pacific! 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