So far in these timely articles on What To Do, we’ve talked about what we shouldn’t do. We shouldn’t fall for the Americanized Christianity that is passing for true Christianity in America today. If we do, we’ll exchange the preaching of the Gospel, the only hope of changing America, for political activism, something incontrovertibly proven over the last several years to be totally ineffectual at changing anything.

Today, we’re talk about the first thing we should do as Christians in these biblically predicted perilous times of the last days. We should preach repentance! The only way America will ever repent of its sin and return to God is if the American people repent of their sin and turn to God. The only way the American people will ever repent of their sin and turn to God is if the church will do what Christ commissioned us to do in Luke 24:47, namely, preach repentance in our land.

What was the message of the Old Testament prophets? Repentance! What was the message of John the Baptist? Repentance! What was the message of Jesus? Repentance! What was the message Jesus commissioned His disciples to preach to “all nations”? Repentance! What is the message the church is to be preaching in the world today?    Repentance! The message has never changed. Repentance is the message of the Bible. 

Make no mistake about it; there is no more unpopular or politically incorrect message that can be preached in today’s America than the message of repentance—that all men are sinners who need to turn from their sin with a broken heart and turn to the Savior, Jesus Christ, with all of their heart. For instance, to preach repentance to a homosexual; that is, to preach that he/she is a sinner that needs to turn from their sin of homosexuality to Christ, is to assure oneself of being readily and roundly condemned in today’s America as an intolerant homophobe. 

In light of incurring such protest, as well as suffering such persecution over the least little peep of repentance in today’s politically correct America, the contemporary church has ceased to preach repentance. As a result, we are actually eliminating all possibility of repentance in America and of America’s return to God. 

As a Christian in today’s America, you must ask yourself whether or not you are willing to do what Christ has commissioned you to do, preach repentance, regardless of how unpopular it makes you and of how much persecution you’ll have to suffer for doing so. Now that you know what to do, the question becomes whether or not you have the courage and commitment to do it.