It's the obvious sins we must repent of first...
Repent! It was the call of John the Baptist to prepare the way of Jesus (Mat. 3:1-2; Luke 3:3-4). But repent of what? This seems to be the struggle of our modern day culture who want to have their salvation and their sinful life too. It is the problem with many millenial Christians who want to reach a world for Jesus but don't believe that acknowledgement of sin and repentance of sin is necessary for salvation to the broken people they are proclaiming Jesus to. Having been in the world and seeing the image of God in the broken people whom they have met, the idea of repentance seems so unloving and intolerant. Nowhere is this more evident than in the churches that have popped up proclaiming that they are "open and affirming". Any lifestyle is equally acceptable and blessed by God, even if it runs contrary to what God has revealed in His Word. There are whole denominations that are doing Scriptural gymnastics trying to deny what the straightforward read