Embracing God's Grace Through True Repentance
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "It's an odd thing when you meet somebody. You're like, I know nothing about you, but I know you're a sinner. I know you have a worst mistake. That is just the reality of being human. Being human right now. But that's an uncomfortable truth that we all have to live with because sin, is uncomfortable. And then especially, most often, our own sin deeply affects the people that are around us, the people we love most. And so being confronted with our sin is a painful process. There is grief in that." [37:28]
2. "But can you hear the truth today that there is a better way to live? That God has offered us this gift of repentance. A way for us to, at any moment, to even today, come into His presence exactly as we are. With our sin, with our scars, and then without trying to make ourselves look better than we are, or make excuses, or point out the ways that we have been good, to just balance it out, we can just admit, we can grieve all the ways that we have rejected God's best for us." [46:15]
3. "When we repent and we turn to Jesus, all of a sudden we can see a different way of thinking. And it's a different way of being. A different way of relating to one another. But in all of that, in all of the new way of being and thinking and relating, when we turn, when we reorient to Jesus, we are confronted over and over again with His grace. That's the gift of repentance. Is that when we're grieving our sin, we are reminded of His extraordinary love that led Him to the cross." [42:50]
4. "True repentance has power. It has power. Because true repentance is a gift from God. Do you believe that? That repentance is a gift from God? I definitely struggle with that sometimes, believing that that's true. Because I've found myself caught up in the lie that confession can sometimes feel like a form of justice. Like the grief that I feel over my sin and then the act of admitting to my failures almost feels like the rightful consequence of my sin. And that is a lie." [41:01]
### Quotes for Members
1. "But while we may not enjoy it in the moment, while it may not feel good, in the moment, the pain from confronting our own sin is actually a good thing because it's from that place where God can transform our hearts. So this grief can be good, but Paul writes that the opposite of godly grief isn't no grief at all, but actually the opposite of godly grief is worldly grief. And while godly grief produces repentance and life, worldly grief produces sin. It produces death." [38:06]
2. "But thankfully, the Corinthian church didn't choose that way. They chose differently. And so while they still experienced grief when they read Paul's words to them, their response led them in a very different direction because they're going to die. Their grief was godly conviction. And then their response was repentance. And Paul knows that that was their response because the evidence is there in the fruit." [40:02]
3. "And so, my heart for us as a church, my heart for each one of you here, is that you would know the gift of repentance. That our good works, even us going out and serving our city, that our good works will be the fruit of us experiencing a life that is found in God. That is found in God. That is found in the rhythm of regularly reorienting our lives to Christ. And that when we feel that sting, that pain, that grief of conviction, we'll just see it as another opportunity, another invitation to remember and to experience God's grace for us." [47:40]
4. "Repentance means that we have to admit our sin and we have to grieve it. And it does mean that we actually have to change our behavior. But true repentance can't be separated from the gracious work of Jesus in our lives. Because repentance is actually a shift in orientation. But what we shift our orientation to is what matters. It's our mind. It's our heart. It's our body turning. And then returning over and over again to Jesus." [42:14]
5. "And so, chapter 7, the section that we're going to be looking at today, it kind of tells the story of him awaiting the response from the church. And then, he gets to receive the news of how they responded to his severe letter. But it's a really hopeful passage, which is wonderful. It's a hopeful passage that gives us a picture of what reconciliation can look like." [28:52]
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1. "It's an odd thing when you meet somebody. You're like, I know nothing about you, but I know you're a sinner. I know you have a worst mistake. That is just the reality of being human. Being human right now. But that's an uncomfortable truth that we all have to live with because sin, is uncomfortable. And then especially, most often, our own sin deeply affects the people that are around us, the people we love most. And so being confronted with our sin is a painful process. There is grief in that." [37:28]
2. "But can you hear the truth today that there is a better way to live? That God has offered us this gift of repentance. A way for us to, at any moment, to even today, come into His presence exactly as we are. With our sin, with our scars, and then without trying to make ourselves look better than we are, or make excuses, or point out the ways that we have been good, to just balance it out, we can just admit, we can grieve all the ways that we have rejected God's best for us." [46:15]
3. "When we repent and we turn to Jesus, all of a sudden we can see a different way of thinking. And it's a different way of being. A different way of relating to one another. But in all of that, in all of the new way of being and thinking and relating, when we turn, when we reorient to Jesus, we are confronted over and over again with His grace. That's the gift of repentance. Is that when we're grieving our sin, we are reminded of His extraordinary love that led Him to the cross." [42:50]
4. "True repentance has power. It has power. Because true repentance is a gift from God. Do you believe that? That repentance is a gift from God? I definitely struggle with that sometimes, believing that that's true. Because I've found myself caught up in the lie that confession can sometimes feel like a form of justice. Like the grief that I feel over my sin and then the act of admitting to my failures almost feels like the rightful consequence of my sin. And that is a lie." [41:01]
### Quotes for Members
1. "But while we may not enjoy it in the moment, while it may not feel good, in the moment, the pain from confronting our own sin is actually a good thing because it's from that place where God can transform our hearts. So this grief can be good, but Paul writes that the opposite of godly grief isn't no grief at all, but actually the opposite of godly grief is worldly grief. And while godly grief produces repentance and life, worldly grief produces sin. It produces death." [38:06]
2. "But thankfully, the Corinthian church didn't choose that way. They chose differently. And so while they still experienced grief when they read Paul's words to them, their response led them in a very different direction because they're going to die. Their grief was godly conviction. And then their response was repentance. And Paul knows that that was their response because the evidence is there in the fruit." [40:02]
3. "And so, my heart for us as a church, my heart for each one of you here, is that you would know the gift of repentance. That our good works, even us going out and serving our city, that our good works will be the fruit of us experiencing a life that is found in God. That is found in God. That is found in the rhythm of regularly reorienting our lives to Christ. And that when we feel that sting, that pain, that grief of conviction, we'll just see it as another opportunity, another invitation to remember and to experience God's grace for us." [47:40]
4. "Repentance means that we have to admit our sin and we have to grieve it. And it does mean that we actually have to change our behavior. But true repentance can't be separated from the gracious work of Jesus in our lives. Because repentance is actually a shift in orientation. But what we shift our orientation to is what matters. It's our mind. It's our heart. It's our body turning. And then returning over and over again to Jesus." [42:14]
5. "And so, chapter 7, the section that we're going to be looking at today, it kind of tells the story of him awaiting the response from the church. And then, he gets to receive the news of how they responded to his severe letter. But it's a really hopeful passage, which is wonderful. It's a hopeful passage that gives us a picture of what reconciliation can look like." [28:52]
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