The Life of a Seed

THE POWER OF REPENTANCE

Pastor Hope Flask

May 25, 2025

Main Scripture: 2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Additional Scriptures: Matthew 7:3-5, James 4:1-3, 1 Corinthians 15:9-10, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 10:10, Luke 19, Isaiah 58:12

POINTS:

• Confronting sin is excruciating and terrifying.

• Repentance is more about restoration than pointing out someone else’s sin.

• Confronting sin is more about calling someone up than out.

• The sin we often see in others is really our sin staring back at us.

• We are to examine our motives before confronting sin in someone else.

• “The less you talk about shame the more you know you have it.”      - Brene Brown

• Do you allow yourself to be seen?

• Belonging begins with the premise that we are all sinners saved by grace.

• “Shame dies when stories are told in safe places.” - Ann Voskamp

• Repentance is a gift.

• We will have one of two responses to seeing the darkness within: despair or hope.

• Godly grief leads to repentance, producing a life without regret.

• Teshuvah: return to your identity

• How many times have we not turned from sin because we have a broken view of who we are?

• Jesus died for who you really are, not for who you pretend to be.

• Repentance = repairing

• Do we have a desire to repair the wrong?