THIS POST IS NOT INTENDED TO BE A REFLECTION OF ANY DENOMINATION
If the gospel of Christ is received by grace through faith in response to Christ's finished work, without any works of righteousness on our part, then repentance has to be a work of God's grace given to man, to turn man in his volition, from sin unto Christ. If repentance is not a work of God's grace, then it is a work of man's righteousness of faith toward God that some have said, on this site, that God accepts. God only accepts the repentance He gives to man when man is under conviction by the Holy Spirit. No one can be saved on their own, it is the work of God that saves them. There are those that make repentance a work of man and try to work it into the gospel of grace. That, my friend, is a little leaven. When you read in the NT scriptures, any call to repentance, whether it came from John the Baptist, our Savior or any other Spirit-filled inspired man of God, that is an invitation of grace and mercy to believe and to repent. What I am saying is that every part of Salvation is of God (Acts 13:26, 16:17, 28:28; Rom 1:16, 2Thes 2:13, Titus 2:11, 2Pt 1:3) that the glory may be of God and not of us (1Chr 16:35, Psalm 79:9, Rom 15:7). God draws us (Jer 31:3), He calls us by grace (Gal 1:6,15), He gives us repentance (Acts 5:31, 2Tim 2:25), He gives us faith for our volition (Rom 12:3) He turns us (Acts 26:18), He gives us His salvation by grace and through faith (Eph 2:8,9), He forgives and cleanses us (Acts 26:18, Eph 1:7, Col 1:14), He imputes His righteousness to us (Rom 4:11,22-24), and it all comes from Him. If we do not respond and we reject His plan of salvation or try to come in through some other door, then we have rejected and hold the truth in unrighteousness (Rom 1:18).
Any gospel that imputes (keeps a record or account) the sins or transgressions of anyone that is in unbelief or not, who is reprobate, who is apostate, who is a great sinner or wicked person or one that turns the truth into a lie, or any person no matter what state they are in, that gospel is not the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ and has no power to regenerate through mercy. I think that this is why some ministries never see, or see very few, true conversions and transformations in their midst or they are filled with the letter of the law crowd that likes to criticize and judge everybody that doesn't line up with their legalistic indoctrination. If anyone wants to be a part of that crowd, you can have it, but I don't want any part of it and I don't care what denomination that crowd comes from.
BTW – If anyone would actually read the scripture references mentioned, you will see that I am not making any of this up. And for those that think you can not take verses from the scriptures and put them together to understand truth, they do not understand that all scripture is given by inspiration of God (Job 32:8, 2Tim 3:16) and they don't understand or utilize the line on line, precept on precept principle that God taught Isaiah and anyone that teaches knowledge (Isaiah 28:9-13) nor do they understand what it means to compare spiritual with spiritual (1Cor 2:13). These are all part of rightly dividing the word of truth (2Tim 2:15). Lastly, many have tried to support their beliefs and understanding by accusing others of taking truth out of context, without considering what Jesus Christ meant when He said the scriptures cannot be broken (John 10:34-42) along with adding to and taking from those scriptures of prophetic utterance (Rev 22:18,19). At times truth can be misinterpreted within the context and you need to compare it with other scriptures to get a greater and more complete understanding of what is being taught.