Change Your Mind The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 repentance KK[rɪˋpɛntəns] DJ[riˋpentəns] 美式 n. 悔悟;悔改;後悔;懺悔[U a change of mind 改變思想 The word “repentance” in the New Testament is the Greek word metanoia , which simply means “a change of mind.” Meta means “change” and noia refers to your mind. There are religious folks who have this idea that repentance means groveling in dirt and condemning themselves until they feel they have sufficiently earned God’s forgiveness. My question is, how condemned and sorrowful do they need to be before they have genuinely “repented”? And after they have “repented,” should they fail again in the same area, does it mean that they did not really “repent” completely the first time? I do not doubt the sincerity of people who believe in “repentance” this wa...