Next is our call to confession -
There
is a verse in Psalm 66:18 that I often use in our prayer of confession: “If I
regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me.” We need to deal with
our sin daily. Our tendency is to avoid it, ignore it, minimize it, shift the
blame for it, cherish it in a corner of our hearts instead of renounce it and
let Christ kill it. Robert Schuller of the Crystal Cathedral made a conscious
decision to never mention sin when he led worship. That is the opposite of what
we need to do. Parents need to lead their children to confess their sins.
Parents and adults need to be led to confess their sins themselves often. This
confession in the worship service is training for all of us, when we see sin,
or someone else points it out. Will we get all huffy and stalk off to find new
friends, a different church, that won’t meddle in our lives? Or will we let God
do His sanctifying work through His people and through the Church?7/22/12
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