True grace doesn't permit us to stay the same; after you know that you are not condemned - it empowers you to change.
Grace was never intended to allow us to keep on being the same as the true gospel of the grace of Christ is God's very empowerment through the life of Christ in and through us that transforms us - as we behold the glory of Christ as in a mirror - we see reflected back who we are in Him because we are one spirit with the Lord and the Spirit transforms us ( 2 Cor. 3:17-18 ) -
His life transforms us outwardly to reflect Christ that is in our inner man - created in righteousness and holiness. We "awake to righteousness and sin not". Awake means to come to ourselves - to sober up to be who you really are.
When we see that we are called to the true life in Christ and we know we can't work it up and can't accomplish it in our own strength but we desire the His life in us to come forth - that's when empowering grace comes to make our faith a reality in our lives.
Yea true indeed, when I was younger for many years I battled with myself, being ashamed for things I've done in the past this can keep a person in a rut no doubt, some point one has to let it go and let him have it, all those feelings of not being worthy enough
etc. Stinking thinking for sure, a trick of the enemy (ahh your no good you can't be forgiven you should feel ashamed)
beating people over the head with condemnation over and over again can lead to a person really thinking they are, without any hope of life. true there's a time and place for using that and it's teachings of coarse it's in the bible, but that's when one should be extra aware of how and when to use it.