Repentance

Repentance is turning from our own way to God's way. The evidences that we are going our own way are manifested in religious, moral, material, or social spheres. We must repent specifically of these sins, for until repentance gets down to the specifics, it is not repentance. But our basic sin is that we choose our own way rather than God's. When we repent we say to God that we hand over to Him the reins of our lives. We do what He wants us to do, not what we want to do

- Ajith Fernando in "The Christian's Attitude Toward World Religions"