The Importance of Surface Diagnosis

Many people try to resolve their guilt and shame by performance-based living, serve more, do more. What is all this disconnecting us from? Compassion, grace, and mercy. It's all based on you trying to fix yourself. You trying to have a religious performance that is up to par. This isn't gonna allow you to do that. We stay surface-y. So our forgiveness and repentance focus is on what happened.