You may call yourself a committed Christian, but if repentance is not part of your life, you are in a dangerous place. Remember Jesus' verdict on the church at Sardis: "You have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead" (Rev 3:1). To be spiritually alive is to walk in repentance. Dead are those Christians who are never sorry for their sins. Dead - in God's eyes - are those Christians who have lost the capacity for the overflowing joy of forgiveness. If this is missing, something is wrong with our lives, no matter how committed we seem. Being human, we are all prone to sin and stand in constant need of forgiveness. We need repentance like the air we breathe.
Source: M. Basilea Schlink - Repentance: The Joy-Filled Life, pp. 20-21
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