The Bible makes it clear that repentance is essential for discipleship, change, and spiritual renewal. But talk about sin and repentance seem to have fallen on hard times. Our witness, integrity, and community depend on a spirit of repentance. The Spirit of Christ calls us to repent of our personal and corporate sins, our pursuit of power and control, our confusion of religious patriotism with Christian discipleship, our sanctioning of violence and oppression, our embrace of exceptionalism instead of humility, our fostering of antagonism and division, our justification of racism and sexism, our closed hearts toward immigrants and refugees, our exploitation of the earth and the poor, and much more. Like lament, repentance is the pathway to a new life in Jesus Christ, to a community known for its reconciliation and integrity, and to a credible witness.

The series draws upon the book by Graham Joseph Hill and Grace Ji-Sun Lim called "Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World."

Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Our-Broken-Humanity-Revitalizing/dp/0830845410

Stirling Theological College, Principal's Devotions, Episode 4: Repent Together (Series 1: Ten Practices that Heal a Broken Humanity)

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