The word "repentance" - metanoia as been shown by others simply in the original greek means " to change the mind ".
Jesus said to "repent and believe in the gospel." Mark 1:15
To us it means to change our mind to stop relying on ourselves and our thinking and turn to God. Stop living our own life with our own thinking and self-reliance and come to Christ and let His life live through and in you. Receive all that Jesus did for us in His finished work.
We should be repenting ( changing how we think towards something ) constantly as we see the Lord's true nature, love and grace revealed to and in us. Yes...this means toward sinning too - from living a homosexual lifestyle to the slandering of others in the body of Christ.
There will always be "fruits" of having a changed mind ( having already repented ) to God but the "fruit" is not the repentance within itself. True repentance is the "root" before the "fruit" comes.
The fruit will manifest itself in the form of having a changed heart because we are a new creation in Christ.
This will also show in behavior as the life of Christ transforms our outward life to reflect what has already happened in our inner man - that new creation in Christ.
Sometimes our religious traditions can "hi-jack" the meanings of words and can present false assumptions.
Here is a video for those that like to watch them that talks about how the English word "repent" got hi-jacked by religion.
[video=vimeo;112172173]https://vimeo.com/112172173[/video]
Jesus said to "repent and believe in the gospel." Mark 1:15
To us it means to change our mind to stop relying on ourselves and our thinking and turn to God. Stop living our own life with our own thinking and self-reliance and come to Christ and let His life live through and in you. Receive all that Jesus did for us in His finished work.
We should be repenting ( changing how we think towards something ) constantly as we see the Lord's true nature, love and grace revealed to and in us. Yes...this means toward sinning too - from living a homosexual lifestyle to the slandering of others in the body of Christ.
There will always be "fruits" of having a changed mind ( having already repented ) to God but the "fruit" is not the repentance within itself. True repentance is the "root" before the "fruit" comes.
The fruit will manifest itself in the form of having a changed heart because we are a new creation in Christ.
This will also show in behavior as the life of Christ transforms our outward life to reflect what has already happened in our inner man - that new creation in Christ.
Sometimes our religious traditions can "hi-jack" the meanings of words and can present false assumptions.
Here is a video for those that like to watch them that talks about how the English word "repent" got hi-jacked by religion.
[video=vimeo;112172173]https://vimeo.com/112172173[/video]