Confession of sins

[Lamb]

How often do you confess your sins such as privately to a pastor or in the liturgy at church?

 

[Josiah]

Liturgically in church - at every worship service. Privately to a pastor - only twice since I changed from Catholic to Lutheran. And that's not good.... I NEED to pray earnestly about that.

 

[Manonfire63]

I grew up Non-Denominational Christian. Confession of sins was not something that was discussed much, if ever.

I ended up blogging. I became aware that I needed to confess my sins in a process of Sanctification. I confessed my sins publicly, in ways that would not create more problems. I don't know that is the best way. It may be a way.

 

[Manonfire63]

Theology -

Atomism - A belief that society is made up of a collection of self-interested and largely self-sufficient individuals or atoms, rather than social groups. (Liberal Belief on Society)

Organicism - A belief that society operates like an organism or living entity, the whole being more than a collection of its individual parts. (Conservative View on Society.)

(“Political Ideologies An Introduction” Third Edition by Andrew Heywood.)

There is a lot to unpack here. The Body of Christ is a society. The Body of Christ is a community. A Roman, who was a pagan, converting to Christianity from Pagan Roman Society, that is different than a Christian growing up in a Christian society, or a society that was supposed to be Christian.

The Body of Christ is a society. Sin is like a wound. Wounds fester. This could be that a man who was a Christian sinned, and something in him was festering because he needed to confess something. This could be a man sinned in the Body of Christ, society, and created conflict and wounds.

If someone grew up Christian, and he went to public school, and was a bully, he may have been a bad ambassador for God. He may need to confess that sin, and more so, he may need to ask forgiveness from the person he sinned against. Given a man was in sexual sins, he may need to go to those women, and ask their forgiveness for leading them astray.

God's plan is God's Kingdom. God's Kingdom is everywhere someone accepts Jesus' Kingship. Building the Kingdom of God, someone may need to be healing conflicts in The Body of Christ. A lot of people have been in sin.

Sanctification - To Be Made Holy and Separate.

In process of sanctification, a man may have been cleaning his honor so that no one could speak against him.

I ended up sort of like a Pinata. God would remind me of somethings I did, that needed resolved, one at a time. I would work through them with God's Holy Spirit.

 

[SetFree]

1 John 1 is our Christian model for handling future sin.

We are to repent to Jesus and ask Him forgiveness when we find we have committed future sin. The Luke 11 prayer He showed His disciples asks for forgiveness of sin, including forgiveness by us of those who sin against us.

That is part of our required Walk to stay in His Grace.

 

[Forgiven1]

Every time I am in corporate worship and when needed. Should be daily.

 

[JennyorAlice]

Confession of sins was not something we do at my church. If you want to talk to your pastor about something in private, that's up to you. Some people will go to the pastor for advice because they trust that person.

 

[BruceLeiter]

I pray for cleansing of my sins and the replacement of my old-nature qualities with new-nature ones every day.

 

[tango]

Confession of sin to a pastor isn't something I've specifically come across although I'd assume the pastor would be willing to meet with someone for any reason, which may include confession of sins.

I have attended services where there's a specific prayer of confession. Personally I don't care much for reading the same prayer from the same book week after week because for me I find it turns into something I say mechanically rather than actually taking the time to consider what I'm saying and actually mean it (I get that others find it helpful but personally I don't).

As a rule I try to keep short accounts. I frequently (meaning more or less daily even if not every single day) pray for general protection over my family and that God would convict us of anything we need to change.

 

[BruceLeiter]

Confession of sin to a pastor isn't something I've specifically come across although I'd assume the pastor would be willing to meet with someone for any reason, which may include confession of sins.

I have attended services where there's a specific prayer of confession. Personally I don't care much for reading the same prayer from the same book week after week because for me I find it turns into something I say mechanically rather than actually taking the time to consider what I'm saying and actually mean it (I get that others find it helpful but personally I don't).

As a rule I try to keep short accounts. I frequently (meaning more or less daily even if not every single day) pray for general protection over my family and that God would convict us of anything we need to change.

@tango, Sin goes much deeper than actions. It involves selfish attitudes, desires, thoughts, as well as feelings. We don't need to confess to others unless the sin directly involves them. God as our Judge has already taken away his "guilty" verdict from us as true believers (justification), but our sins still remain lurking in our sinful natures.

We have to ask God what inner sins still remain within us, for they are still there. As a result, we need to ask that God will cleanse our lives of those sins daily through Jesus' death, as Jesus taught us in the Lord's Prayer, "And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors" (Matthew 6:12). Read all of the letters or epistles, especially the second parts of them (for example, Colossians 3-4, Ephesians 4-6, Galatians 5-6, Romans 12-16, and Hebrews 12-16), to discover the commands about sins that we don't often think about.

 

[tango]

@tango, Sin goes much deeper than actions. It involves selfish attitudes, desires, thoughts, as well as feelings. We don't need to confess to others unless the sin directly involves them. God as our Judge has already taken away his "guilty" verdict from us as true believers (justification), but our sins still remain lurking in our sinful natures.

We have to ask God what inner sins still remain within us, for they are still there. As a result, we need to ask that God will cleanse our lives of those sins daily through Jesus' death, as Jesus taught us in the Lord's Prayer, "And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors" (Matthew 6:12). Read all of the letters or epistles, especially the second parts of them (for example, Colossians 3-4, Ephesians 4-6, Galatians 5-6, Romans 12-16, and Hebrews 12-16), to discover the commands about sins that we don't often think about.

Sure, sin is more than actions. We aren't specifically required to confess to others but we may sometimes choose to, whether to share a struggle or for any other reason.

 

[BruceLeiter]

Sure, sin is more than actions. We aren't specifically required to confess to others but we may sometimes choose to, whether to share a struggle or for any other reason.

That's true, @tango.

 

[jswauto]

What about the Prayer of Salvation? Have you considered adding this to your daily walk with the Lord. With a powerful addition like this you can minimize unrepentant sin in your life leading you astray.

When we analyze the prayer:

Dear Lord, please forgive me of my sins. I know you died on the cross for me. Come into my life. Be my Lord and Savior.

How simple and short, but so powerful! Asking for forgiveness of sins and calling the lord anew into your life, in a matter of seconds. It wouldn't be hard to memorize that prayer!

 

[Lamb]

What about the Prayer of Salvation? Have you considered adding this to your daily walk with the Lord. With a powerful addition like this you can minimize unrepentant sin in your life leading you astray.

When we analyze the prayer:

Dear Lord, please forgive me of my sins. I know you died on the cross for me. Come into my life. Be my Lord and Savior.

How simple and short, but so powerful! Asking for forgiveness of sins and calling the lord anew into your life, in a matter of seconds. It wouldn't be hard to memorize that prayer!

It's very similar, albeit shorter, than the confession of sins in the Lutheran Liturgy:

Most merciful God, we confess that we are by nature sinful and unclean. We have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved You with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We justly deserve Your present and eternal punishment. For the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways to the glory of Your holy name. Amen.

 

[BruceLeiter]

It's very similar, albeit shorter, than the confession of sins in the Lutheran Liturgy:

Most merciful God, we confess that we are by nature sinful and unclean. We have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved You with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We justly deserve Your present and eternal punishment. For the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways to the glory of Your holy name. Amen.

Does your liturgy also have a prayer for renewal, @Lamb?

 

[Lamb]

Does your liturgy also have a prayer for renewal, @Lamb?

We are reminded to daily remember our baptisms. That's a type of "renewal".

When you wash your face​

remember your baptism.​

-Martin Luther​

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the un-circumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. Colossians 2:12-15

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Galatians 3:27

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into is death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

For if we have been united with him in death we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you must all consider yourselves dead to sin and alive in God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:1-18

 

[Marston]

How often do you confess your sins such as privately to a pastor or in the liturgy at church?

Never, but I often confess them to God and apologize and ask forgiveness.

 

[Holy999]

when i feel transgresered