So tell us Peter Do you remember every sin you have committed since birth. I mean you must, because you mocked me when I said that is not what repentance was. In fact, Do you even right now know every sin there is one may commit? Did you know that at birth? So how could you POSSIBLY say repent means to repent of individual sins peter. Please. Do tell.
Repent means to change ones thinking, it does not mean I have to confess every sin.
God did not ask you to name every sin to be saved, he asked you to have faith in his word and his work.. That means admitting you are a sinner, and as such, condemned and judged rightly by God. .
EG - I am not mocking you. This is where you do not understand us. This testimony
is about experience, of conviction of sin, so seeing failure and recognising this failure,
at levels that humbles us. It takes words in scripture and makes it real for the soul.
Now this appears not to have happened to you, so you look at it as if it is a doctrinal
belief system. Read experiences of revivals down through the centuries, and this is
a very common experience, a deep conviction of failure and need.
Now in the past you have talked about something similar, but maybe we have been
talking with similar words but different meaning.
Now some grow up in a restrained church culture who have never let go, always
repressed, always struggling to be good. If you ever let go, been true to yourself
deep within you, you would understand the dilemma between who we are and who
Christ is. When you see this, what stunned testified to is this emotional realisation.
It makes who we are, it bring Christ as our Lord, the one we listen to, it binds us as
a people. It is also what attracted me to Jesus's words and promise and what puzzels
me about you and your groups position.
It shows me that what speaks to our hearts defines us. You are stirred deeply by your
view of faith, and repulsed by our experiences. But it cannot detract from this experience
and insight, like switching on a light in a dark world.
What also troubles me, is these experiences appears to be very similar to Paul, Peters, Johns
writing, which for whatever reason your group ignores or is blind to probably because of your
similar emotional backgrounds and experience. But such is much of life.
God bless you, may Christs love dwell richly in your heart.
