The Missing Word in the Gospel: Repentance

Kevin DeYoung's piece addresses the tendency in modern preaching and evangelism to underemphasize repentance, urging a restoration of the term in gospel proclamation.

DeYoung summarizes biblical, pastoral, and cultural reasons for reclaiming repentance and offers concrete suggestions for preaching and discipleship.

The article has circulated among pastors as a prompt to integrate repentance more clearly into evangelistic and pastoral language.

Brauns referenced it as one of the prompts that pushed him to write his book on repentance.