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Brothers, Lead Them to Repentance through Their Pleasure | John Piper

Deep Dive into Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry by John Piper - Brothers, Lead Them to Repentance through Their PleasureDavid Brainerd, an eighteenth-century missionary, made remarkable and counter-intuitive observations about the nature of repentance and contrition during his ministry to American Indian tribes. He found that true remorse was not primarily produced by words of terror or fear-mongering, but rather paradoxically, it grew "in the soil of pleasure."Brainerd observed that his listeners were "much more affected with the comfortable than the…

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