Is it biblical and loving to call people to repentance in our sermons?

Carlton McLeod explains in this video that preaching a message of repentance is often seen by the world as being mean-spirited. They claim that Christ is not concerned about our sin but rather only wants to love us for who we are. 

But, when we look at Scripture, we see that Christ continually preaches a message of repentance. We also see this same preaching of repentance by Peter in the New Testament. He doesn’t preach a prosperity Gospel, he doesn’t preach a message where repentance is absent. Rather, he calls his audience to repent. Neglecting to call people to repentance in our preaching is not loving and it is not biblical. Rather, we ought to love them enough that we call them to repentance.

Acts 2:38 (NKJV) – “Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

In Mark chapter 1, somewhere around verse 18, where the Lord himself came preaching repent and believe the gospel. That was powerful for me because then it wasn't, you know, it wasn't preaching repentance can is framed by the world as mean spirited. That's not how Jesus Jesus is not concerned about our our sin. He just loves us And he just wants to scoop us up into his arms and sing lullabies to us. And so it was astonishing to me to study the Gospels and to see Jesus coming on the scene and in the very early stages of his ministry cry out, repent.

It was astonishing to me, again in Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 3, when the Holy Spirit is poured out in power on the church and the Apostle Peter stands up and preaches to this large gathering of people and he opens his mouth and he doesn't say, you know, come to Jesus and all your dreams are going to come true. Come to Jesus and you can self-actualize. Come to Jesus. And I tell you what, because God's got a great plan for your life. No, no, no, he doesn't do that.

He stands up on the day of Pentecost and cries out in love, repent. And then we go to chapter three, and he does it again, repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out. And so I think just the study of the gospels, again in Mark 1 and in Acts 2, Acts 3, I think those groups, that group of scriptures meant a lot to me as I was learning That calling people to Jesus for comfort and ease wasn't the way, but loving them enough to call them to repentance like the master did, like the apostles did, was the way to go. You