{
  "title": "Compassion Ministries Detached From Repentance and Gospel Proclamation",
  "slug": "compassion-ministries-detached-from-repentance-and-gospel-proclamation",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/compassion-ministries-detached-from-repentance-and-gospel-proclamation/",
  "category": "Salvation and Gospel",
  "severity": 3,
  "severity_label": "Level 3 - Serious doctrinal or moral error",
  "summary": "Compassion is biblical, but compassion ministries become distorted when physical help is detached from repentance, reconciliation to God, and the gospel of Christ.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Matt 9:35-38",
    "Luke 24:46-47",
    "Acts 3:19",
    "2 Cor 5:18-21",
    "Titus 3:3-8"
  ],
  "key_terms": "splagchnizomai [to have compassion]; metanoia [repentance]; katallage [reconciliation]; diakonia [service, ministry]",
  "related_topics": [
    "mission-reduced-to-social-improvement",
    "just-preach-the-gospel-used-to-avoid-moral-witness",
    "therapeutic-gospel-treating-the-gospel-mainly-as-emotional-healing-and-self-acceptance",
    "justice-language-detached-from-biblical-righteousness"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}