Repentance is turning away from sin, self, Satan and all evil practices of the world unto God. It is a two-way action. On one hand, there is a turning away FROM evil, and on the other hand there is a turning TO God. For emphasis a person:
Turns away FROM sin and turns TO God
Turning away from sin that doesn’t go at the same time with turning to God is a mere reformation, not transformation.
Inability to understand this concept make quite a number of people to find repentance so difficult or impossible. Again, ONLY Christ grants true repentance through the Holy Spirit, the very reason we are commanded to preach it in his name. In some other names, it won’t work
