We stimulate got a work confessing genuine sin fifty-fifty though it's absolutely critical to our spiritual well-being.
We turn down God's grace as well as ruin human relationships when nosotros ignore, excuse, underestimate, or justify our sins.
One mutual work is believing nosotros exclusively brand "understandable mistakes."
We must last able to set as well as confess existent sins - selfishness, anger, lust, bitterness, arrogance, idolatry, etc.
1 Corinthians 11:31-32 warns against participating inwards the Lord's Supper without kickoff examining ourselves:
"If nosotros would examine ourselves first, nosotros would non come upwards nether God's judgment. But nosotros are judged as well as punished past times the Lord, as well as hence that nosotros shall non last condemned together alongside the world." GNT
We don't only brand "mistakes." We are sinners who should regularly examine ourselves as well as acknowledge our sins honestly.
Humble repentance leads to somebody refreshment (Acts 3:19).
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