Pastoral counsel for Christians with habitual sin: radical repentance, not patchwork solutions

Mike's pastoral advice is to pray for and call to radical repentance. He uses the concept of "rock bottom" from addiction counseling as an analogy: it is not an external circumstance but an act of will—actual repentance. Patchwork solutions (reading the Bible a little more, attending church monthly) are positive but don't produce the transformative change that genuine repentance does. The deep problem is often wanting freedom from sin's consequences without wanting God himself.