Hello, my friends.

Welcome to another week of Follow Him Favorites.

We take a small portion of each week's Come Follow Me Lesson and talk about it for our

Follow Him Favorite.

Follow Him Favorites this week is What is True Repentance?

John the Baptist comes crying repentance.

Jesus picks up right there crying repentance for the kingdom of God as at hand.

We use this word repent all the time.

What would you say is True Repentance?

That is such a good question because in one of my classes, Hank, I'll put up on a power

point just the word repent and say, what's your first reaction?

Because it almost sounds like a scolding repent type of a thing.

Like a negative term.

Yeah, like a harsh type of a thing, but it's so positive.

When you look in the Bible dictionary for the definition of repentance, I think it's the

second paragraph says a fresh view about God, about oneself and about the world.

Now listen to that, how positive that is.

It's a new way of looking at everything, yourself, God, the world.

And I think one of the synonyms for repent is turn, isn't it, Hank?

It's like you're going this direction turn, return, repent.

We see those words together sometimes.

Yeah, there's a quote right out of this week's Come Follow Me Manual that says, Luke quoted

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