Works and Repentance

Many believe repentance must bring forth works, they even base fellowship on sincere repentance and visible proof of someone's conversion.

1. Baptists may vote on your conversion experience, to allow you into their body.

2. Nazarene's refuse fellowship if your life is not visible proof of conversion.

Yet, no one wants to admit that repentance isn't going to cost your soul if works don't come forth also.

Luk 3:9  And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 

If good fruit does not come forth you will be lost. The question, how much fruit is necessary. Fruits worthy of repentance is all it says.

Luk 3:8  Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 

Though we can see this as keeping righteousness, it is also a walk of faith.

Of course repentance is based upon knowledge, the more you know and understand the more is required.

God gives man enough knowledge to prove they are sinners, but we also grow in knowledge as Christians.

Faith and repentance, as far as judging man, is done so based on the individual.

He who knows to do good and does it not, to him it is sin.

God didn't show grace based upon works.

We aren't saved by works.

Works have to be preset however to prove faith and repentance to be sincere.