Week # 14

REPENTANCE

" True repentance is not only sorrow for sins, and humble penitence and contrition before God, but it involves the necessity of turning away from them, a discontinuance of all evil practices and deeds, a thorough reformation of life, a vital change from evil to good, from vice to virtue, from darkness to light. Not only so, but to make restitution, so far as it is possible, for all the wrongs we have done, to pay our debts, and restore to God and man their rights---that which is due to them from us." (Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, pp. 100-101).

Questions and Activities

• What is sin? What is repentance?
• What is the process of repentance?
• In what way is changing your behavior to righteous actions part of repentance?
• How does forgiving others help you obtain forgiveness of your sins?
• How has the Lord let you know when your repentance is accepted?
• What blessings have come to you through repentance?
• Record in your journal your feelings about the opportunity provided by the Savior to repent and change.
• What in your life are you trying to change and make better?

Topical Guide

Change

Confess

Confession

Forgive, Forgiveness

Guilt, Guilty

Man, New, Spiritually Reborn

Remission of Sins

Repent, Repentance

Turn

Scriptures

Enos 1

Alma 5, 7:14-22, 36

Helaman 7:17-29

Ezekial 33:7-16

Luke 15

Articles of Faith 1:4

Bible Dictionary

Confession

Repentance

Other Sources

Gospel Principles, chapter19

Jesus the Christ, chapter 27

The Articles of Faith, chapter 5