How and when to Confess

10. Public Confession

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Churches that require public confession to be forgiven for sins are not only living in the past, but they are promoting something that is not Biblical. Nowhere in the Bible does God instruct us to sit in the presence of any other human being and bare our hearts in order to be forgiven. 

“But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

This is a huge stumbling block for moving out of the past and into the community of people in need for the healing only Christ can provide.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).