When I look at the conversions of today, I see so much lacking that I am
afraid they will be a detriment unless people stop making the conversion
experience the main thing. The Lord will give nothing, will reveal nothing
of that for which we hope, unless the change of heart remains the first
and
last thing. The gospel always produces repentance...The outcome of one’s
own repentance is to produce further repentance—which thought also belongs
to the gospel. But whatever does not come out of one’s own repentance is
about as effective as soap bubbles against fortress walls.
- Johann Christoph Blumhardt
