- Repentance is more concerned with what changes inside than outside:
- Begins with a response to the Holy Spirit (often sensed by feeling sorrow or grief over our sin)
- But must be ore than that emotional response; our sadness must produce a cleansed, pure "heart"
- ...and that must produce a change of mind (think differently; Romans 12:2)
- If we confess our sins is more than saying "sorry"
- We must concur that what we have done, how we have thought or where we have failed to be act obediently, is sin
- Confess = "agree with God that what the Spirit have convicted us of is truly sin
- Conviction without contrition is weak; that sin will easily repeat
- Three Transforming Questions
- What? ... is the sin God wants me to repent (turn) from?
- So What? ...why has the Lord pointed this particular issue to me (why is this sin hurtful to the Lord? to the Body of Christ? to our Christian witness?
- Now What? ... does the Spirit want to do in me, to make me more like Christ? (ask someone to forgive me? change an attitude? resume a spiritual discipline? research the issue biblically?)
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Thank you for this encouragement!!
Phil, this is very practical. Thank you.