We believe that repentance, in the context of salvation, is turning from unbelief to belief (Mark 1:15), with true godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10) for all the sins we’ve hitherto committed against God. We do not believe that a person must, first, turn from their sins in order to be saved, but that, once saved, by God’s grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9), the same Holy Spirit which seals our redemption (Ephesians 4:30) will give us His strength to sin no more. God calls us, as His children, to live a holy, righteous life (1 Peter 2:24). As part of doing so, we should, indeed, confess and repent of (that is, turn from) our sins, in which case, as saved Christians, God “is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).