How truthful are your confessions? When you talk to God do you sweet talk the Lord, skirt the important issues and skip any blatant and perpetual sins, or do you tell it like it is? Do you readily confess your need for God’s guidance, or do you set out to build your own kingdom and later ask God to bless your construction, or destruction?
This Sunday, we continue our journey through the spiritual disciplines as we focus on Confession: Tell It Like It Is. From a variety of biblical texts we learn that the discipline of confession fosters forgiveness, healing, growth, and community.
In his book, Celebration of Discipline, Richard Fosters proposes that Confession is a difficult discipline for us because we all too often see the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We are in God’s family because we are sinners saved by grace. God desires honesty and truthfulness from us in all of our communication, especially our confession.
The first confession we are invited to make is our confession of faith, our initial commitment to follow Jesus as our Lord and Savior. On March 18 and March 22 we will be celebrating baptism with those who have recently made professions of faith or who have recently joined our church family from other faith traditions. The first opportunity for baptism is March 18 at
I look forward to seeing you this Sunday as we gather for worship and Bible study.
