Tell me, what does the word “repent” mean to you? I think that for many people the word has a very negative connotation. They imagine some church official saying, “Ve have vays of making you repent!” But actually, the biblical definition of repentance is not a negative one. The Greek word for repent is metanoia.…
If I were to say to you, “Oh, now I think you’re just trying to justify what you did,” would you take that as a compliment? Would that be a good thing, that you’re trying to justify yourself? No, probably not. In our language today, in our culture, the word justify has the connotation of making some kind of excuse for something…
