It's not a matter in which there will be a debate about turning from sin. I've had preachers try that on me as well; where they would try to accuse me of not teaching that Christians should turn from sin. They obviously have never listened to my teachings. The problem is that attaching godly sorrow onto turning from sin and trying to combine that all into repentance together still creates a works-based doctrine, and the reason they want to eliminate godly sorrow, or rather, they reject it, is because as soon as you tell them what it means, they quickly look at themselves and realize they've never gone through that. Immediately after that point, they try to pull up some Scriptures in their minds in which they think you'll have a hard time answering them, not to find the truth, but to try to create doubt in your mind so they can justify themselves. I'd tell this same thing to anyone; this is what will happen in the majority of cases you will encounter, most especially in church building leadership.
