What does repentance look like in the life of a believer?

Michael Beasley explains in this video that biblical repentance does not involve the act of someone merely changing their mind. Rather, they are changing their mind and transforming their lives in view of that transformation of the mind.  

Genuine repentance occurs when individuals realize that they’re in error and that they’re sinning. They are convinced that they are moving in the wrong direction and that they need to transform their direction to the pathway of God. Repentance is foundational to the life of the Christian and it is a daily experience.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”



Well, when we were talking about repentance, the Greek word metanoia in its basic sense just simply speaks of the changing of one's mind. Of course, when we're talking about biblical repentance, though, we're talking about someone who's not just changing their mind as an abstract, but they're changing their mind and transforming their life in view of that transformation of the mind. So genuine repentance is a moment where someone realizes that they are in error, that they're sinning, and being persuaded of that, they are convinced that they're in the wrong direction and that they need to transform their direction to the pathway of God. And repentance is crucial, it is foundational to the life of the Christian, and it is a daily experience.