>>What does repentance mean?
Not the same as “asking for forgiveness”. We believe that the Sovereign God chose to forgive us for all past, present, and future sins before we were even born and that Jesus washed us clean on the cross 2000 years ago. We believe that god has not only forgiven, but forgotten our sins as if they never happened.
So, we repent (go and sin no more), but we don’t have to ask for forgiveness from our Father because we have been chosen to be his children.
Jesus' own words contradict that:
Luke 17:1-4
17 Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. 2 It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3 So watch yourselves.
"If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. 4 If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him."
NIV
Forgiveness is conditional upon repentance.
Bad news for the folks who've been deceived into perverting forgiveness of sin into permission to sin.