How do you repent?

Answer 1

"Equivalent exchange"

If you're really going to try and make things better, then make them better. If you stole 20 bucks from someone, give them 20 bucks back, with interest, plus an additional 5 or 10 bucks because that 20 bucks they didn't hav eat that time was "a lost opportunity." If you sinned by, say, having sex while unmarried, all you have to do is undo the damage of having sex while unmarried... I'm not exactly sure what the damage IS, but that's for the "sinner" to decide, and to make ammends for somehow.

Answer 2

Repentance is the feeling and act in which one recognizes and tries to right a wrong, or gain forgiveness from someone that they wronged. In religious contexts it usually refers to repenting for a sin against God. It always includes an admission of guilt, and also includes at least one of: a solemn promise or resolve not to repeat the offense; an attempt to make restitution for the wrong, or in some way to reverse the harmful effects of the wrong where possible.

My definition:
i when up infront of my church and asked to be saved, getting baptised on sunday

Answer 3

Repentance and regret are not the same. The day the Judge hands down the death penalty, the killer may regret that he has killed. If that is his only feeling, he shouldn't waste his time asking God for forgiveness.

Repentance is an emotion like love or hate. One needs to look at what we have done and recognize the harm our actions have done to others. And we need to feel badly about that harm. In other words we need to really feel that what we did was WRONG!

Answer 4

It depends.Who told you to repent? If you are going to repent to God then all you need to do is admit all your sin and ask for forgiveness. Be honest because he already knows, He just want to hear it from you. Then ask for guidance, that's the most important thing.

Answer 5

Oh this is a great question for me!

Ok, repent means........TO CHANGE YOUR MIND. Ok, got that.

Sin is no longer. What Paul was trying to save people from was their mindset. They were stuck in sin consciousness. Well, of course they were, they just had thousands of years of laws that the people thought God gave them. The apostles were a different story. Paul and them did NOT agree!

The ultimate sacrafice was done. Law was fulfilled and so was the punishment.

So change your mind about being a sinner. It is impossible. You are inseperable from God no matter what you believe or do.

Answer 6

First you have to be honest with yourself. Do you know what you have to repent for is something that, in some way, is wrong. Do you know how wrong it is. What did you do and who,or what, did you do it to. All that kind of stuff

Now, do you feel any sadness inside yourself that you did whatever it was you did. Is there that emty gut sick kind of feeling inside... Then you need to do some repenting

Now, you need to figgure out who you need to do the repenting to.

Did you just kind of like insult someone or not do something you said you would but did'nt... the kind of every day thing we all do to screw up now and then... If that is the case all you need to do is go and ask to make things right with whoever it was you failed... If you both can aggree and are satisfied with the results then you have repented... so do'nt do it again... There are times when you can not go to the one you offended... then you have to resolve within yourself that you will not do whatever it was again and you will work to make amends by helping others in similer circomstances, or just helping others some other way.... AND MEAN IT

If it is one of the Biggies... you really hurt someone... stole something... or worse...well you will have to deal with the law...

If you are concerned that you have done something that has offended God... see any of the above and more... Then you need to go to Him and work it out....

I am gathering you may not be of The Christian Faith. Because if you were you would probably already have done the going to God part first...

If you are not of The Church of which Jesus The Christ is The Head... Then it will do no good to try to get to God... you can only come to God in The Way He proscribes.

In all of this you need to really mean it within yourself... If you need to go to God then He will know if you mean it or not... you can not fake it....

Repentence and forgivness are tied togeather.... it do'nt do no good to repent if you aint forgiven... by the one offended... sometimes it is not possable to get the forgivness of the mortal person or persons you have offended... But God is always there for those who come to Him as He has provided... And God is a forgiving God... that's His thing as it were... But you have to mean it when you come to him.... and come to him on His terms... not yours...

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Answer 7

Repent means :To change the mind; though with the mind is included the affections... This meaning is out of the "The Dictionary of the Bible"...Through Christ we have open access to God, The Creator and sustainer of all things., but to be in favor of God, We must repent of all our sins...Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning in jerusalem...Luke:24th chapter/verses: 46/47

Answer 8

1) Realize you did wrong

2) Feel sorry for it

3) Ask God for forgiveness (this may or may not include confessing to an eclesiastical leader depending on your denomination & the nature of the sin)

4) Ask anyone you may have hurt forgiveness

5) If possible, try to fix what you did wrong (if you lied, tell the truth, if you stole something return it, etc.)

6) Don't do it again

Well those are the basic steps we teach the kids in primary (sunday school for kids) anyway. Best wishes.

Answer 9

I use a military form of imagery for explaining this... Imagine that you are marching in cadence in a direction pointing away from God's path for you. When God says..."Atteeeention!" He then asks you to change your direction and forward march to Him! In other words...REPENT and come back to me! It is changing directions. Stopping in your tracks. Reversing the sinful path and following God. Giving up the desire to sin and pressing forward on the straight and narrow.
Be Blessed My Friend,
Peacemaker

Answer 10

Repent means to turn away from something that is wrong, and ask God to forgive you.