For generations, the Church has preached repentance as the moment everything changes. Come to the altar. Confess your sins. Turn from your wicked ways. Ask God for forgiveness. But BISHOP GEORGE BLOOMER challenges us to look beyond the moment of repentance and rediscover a biblical word that demands something deeper: conversion.
In
Be Converted, Bishop Bloomer examines the difference between feeling sorry and actually becoming different. Repentance can change your direction, but conversion changes the person who is walking. It reaches beyond an emotional response, beyond religious ritual and beyond the promise to do better next time. Conversion is the process by which what begins in the mind eventually becomes visible in the life.
Bishop Bloomer explores what it means to move from conviction to repentance, from repentance to conversion and from conversion into genuine transformation. Along the way, he confronts the uncomfortable possibility that many people have learned how to repent repeatedly without ever allowing repentance to produce lasting change.
Be Converted is an invitation to examine what has actually changed since you first said you believed. Have your thoughts changed? Have your patterns changed? Have your relationships changed? Has the way you respond to pressure, temptation, disappointment and correction changed?
Repentance may be where the journey begins, but transformation is where the journey is taking you. The call of scripture is more than repent. It is a call to be converted.
