Real Repentance

I've really been enjoying Michael Lawrence's new book, Conversion: How God Creates a People. A few chapters into the book Lawrence writes about repentance and the dangers of false repentance. Here is how Lawrence defined repentance...

Real repentance is a new worship. It looks like a changed life, but the changed behavior results from a change of worship, not the other way around.  

Repentance is being convicted by the Holy Spirit of the sinfulness of our sin - not the badness of our deeds but the treachery of our hearts toward God.  

Repentance means hating what we formerly loved and served - our idols - and turning away from them.  

Repentance means turning to love God, whom we formerly hated, and serving him instead. It's a new deepest loyalty of the heart. 

So what do you think? Is your repentance genuine or false? Tomorrow I'll post how Lawrence describes false converts.