When Repentance Becomes Rare

The modern church is not suffering from a lack of information.
It is suffering from passivity.

Sermons are preached. Scriptures are respected. Convictions are felt. Yet obedience has quietly become optional. Repentance has become rare. Encouragement has taken the place of shared, practiced obedience.

In When Repentance Becomes Rare, pastor and author Jeremy Plymale examines how the church learned to hear the Word without doing it-and why this quiet drift has produced spiritual stagnation, moral failure, and a form of Christianity that feels sincere but remains unchanged.

Rooted in the book of James, this book confronts the cultural and structural habits that have trained believers to manage sin privately, avoid confession, and assume maturity without examination. Plymale exposes the modern fig leaves of professionalism and politeness, challenges the myth of private faith, and shows how long-term Christians can drift into autopilot spirituality without realizing it.

This is not a call to emotionalism, public spectacle, or forced vulnerability. It is a call to recover ordinary, biblical practices that once made obedience normal-confession, accountability, and the shared application of Scripture within the people of God.

Written for pastors, leaders, and serious Christians, When Repentance Becomes Rare calls the church back to what Scripture actually expects-not just belief, but practice.

The church does not need more information.
It does not need more inspiration.

It needs doers.