The Gospel According to Jesus Part 5: Reframing Repentance

Edge Kingsland

In the final reflection in this series, we explore what repentance looks like in the context of the story of Jesus and the invitation to follow the way of the upside-down kingdom. Repentance is not to be used as a tool with which to add weight and further suffering to those who are already vulnerable, marginalised or traumatised. For Jesus, his biggest confrontation and challenge was always toward those with the most power and privilege. Repentance is much more about a personal and communal process of seeing the ways we might engage in harmful practices, and the commitment to move away from this and toward the way of love.