Mark Driscoll - 7 Counterfeits of Repentance

throughout the course of your life.

For some of you, this will be revisiting things

that I've taught you before,

but maybe you still need to do.

And for the rest of you, maybe you do know

and practice repentance, and this will help clarify

your ability to counsel others.

I want you to pay attention.

This is really important stuff.

If you don't know what to do with sin,

you'll ruin your life and destroy anyone

who is connected to you.

It's that big of a deal.

So true repentance is not religious repentance.

Religious repentance is this.

I see your sin, not my own.

I confess your sin, not my own.

I'm really unhappy with your sin,

but I'm not really troubled by my own.

It's because religious people tend to think

that they are self-righteous and pious and holy

and better than everyone else.

The result is that they think they are good

and everyone else is bad.

And religious people like to busybody and gossip

and neednick and nitpick and just be a perennial pain

in the Levi's.

That's what religious people do.

And the way this works is they're always glad

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