What Greg Johnson Won’t Tell You About “Double Repentance”

In his new book Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality (Zondervan, 2021), PCA pastor Greg Johnson gives a history of the “ex-gay movement.” He believes it utterly failed and bemoans the fact that many evangelicals today still think homosexuality can be cured. In the conclusion of the book, Johnson gives what he sees as a new path by way of an old path: double repentance.

Quoting from an obscure 1978 book by Richard Lovelace, the idea of “double repentance” is

essentially this: homosexuals in the church must repent of homosexual behavior and the rest of

the church must repent of homophobia. It is a path that Greg Johnson claims evangelicals were

on before their views were hijacked by the false hopes of the “ex-gay movement” and the fearmongering of the culture war that fought against the normalizing of homosexuality in America.

In short, “double repentance” is what the church should be about in the 21st century...