The Power of Right Believing: 7 Keys to Freedom from Fear, Guilt, and Addiction by Prince Joseph

Author:Prince, Joseph [Prince, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion / Christian Life - Spiritual Growth, Religion / Christian Life - Personal Growth
ISBN: 9781455553174
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2013-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

Change Your Mind

The word “repentance” in the New Testament is the Greek word metanoia, which simply means “a change of mind.”3 Meta means “change” and noia refers to your mind. There are religious folks who have this idea that repentance means groveling in dirt and condemning themselves until they feel they have sufficiently earned God’s forgiveness through their contrition.

My question is, how condemned and sorrowful do they need to be before they have genuinely “repented”? And after they have “repented,” should they fail again in the same area, does it mean that they did not really “repent” completely the first time round? I do not for one moment doubt the sincerity of people who believe in “repentance” this way. However, you can be sincere in your intent but still be sincerely wrong when repentance is not based on right believing that leads to inward heart transformation.

What I am saying is that you can beat your breast sorrowfully, put on sackcloth and ashes, cry your eyeballs out at the altar, and still go home unchanged. Sorrow doesn’t equal transformation. It is right believing that brings about true repentance (change of mind) and hence genuine transformation. It is impossible to truly repent the Bible way—to experience Jesus, His love, His grace, and His power and to allow Him to change your mind and your belief system—and still remain the same.

It is right believing that brings about true repentance (change of mind) and hence genuine transformation.

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