Repentance is a change of mind that shifts your direction, not just turning away from sins. Many Christians confuse it with renunciation, a declarative act of forsaking specific behaviors. Without genuine repentance first, renunciation alone won't stick.
So to repent, you've been told, means to turn from. That's what it means to renounce. Repentance is a change in the mind. Now, Christians, generally speaking, have mixed up the terms to where we say repentance is to turn from and renounce means to read from a long list of things your grandparents did and you used to do and just saying, I renounce, I renounce, I renounce, I renounce. Now that's declaring. That's confession. To repent is to change your mind. To renounce is to turn from or to forsake. Therefore, repentance is a change in mind that results in a change in direction. Many of you have been trying to renounce things you haven't repented of.
