What’s Wrong With Us?

REPENTANCE & REPARATION

Pastor Hope Flask

March 22, 2026

Main Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 7:2-10

Additional Scriptures: Ephesians 5:13-14, Matthew 12:31-33, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 7:11-12, Matthew 7:3-5, James 4:1-3, 1 Corinthians 15:9-10, John 10:10, Isaiah 58:12

POINTS:

• The unforgivable sin = when there is no repentance.

• Confronting sin, whether it is in ourselves or in others, is both excruciating and terrifying.

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

• Confronting sin is more about calling them up than it is about calling them out.

• Often, the sin we see in others is really our sin staring back at us.

• We are to check our motives before confronting someone else’s sin.

• “Shame is best understood as the fear of disconnection… The thing that underpins the shame is excruciating vulnerability.” -Brene Brown

• If we want connection, we must allow ourselves to be seen.

• When we refuse to confront our sin, we are listening to a false gospel.

• True community and belonging only happen when we begin with the premise that we are all sinners saved by grace.

• Godly grief produces repentance, and repentance produces a life without regret.

• Repentance, in Hebrew, is teshuvah, which means return to your identity.

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

• If you want to know if your repentance is genuine, check your eagerness to set things right.

• Christians repair what is broken.