To restore that fellowship, you would have to
maybe confess some sin to them, humble yourself and return to them, or simply get on the phone and call them up.
I hope you belong to a sect of Xtianity that is big on confession because after your little show here, methinks you'll need it... But, don't
confess your sins of stupidity and willful ignorance to your non-existent «Sky Father» — you own your apologies to your fellow Humanity.
That's why Our Lord gave us the sacrament of
confessing our sins so he can deliver us from those bad choices we might have made and thus delivering us from the grip Satan has on us.
The call to confession «invite people to get in touch with themselves and asks where they feel some empty spaces in their lives» (symbolized by a display of empty, clear plastic bags on the communion table), as if admitting emptiness were the same
as confessing sin, and as if sin were merely the absence of good.
It is from the synoptics that we learn that he preached judgment and repentance and that he baptized ones
who confessed their sins.
There's something else going on though as now he's also sprouting horns from his head but they have a useful power, one that makes
people confess their sins.
(Never mind that Francis was speaking about individuals who
humbly confess their sins before the Lord» not those who adamantly persist in them.)
Being, by definition, anti-Fascist and having transcended bourgeois categories such as religion, Marxists in East Germany could
confess no sins without flagrantly contradicting their consciousness of themselves.
In our denomination if
someone confesses his sins the response is supposed to be absolution: I declare to you (your name) forgiveness in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
It tells Christians: «On the Lord's own day [Sunday], assemble in common to break bread and offer thanks [i.e. celebrate the Eucharist]; but
first confess your sins so that your sacrifice may be pure.»
This means trusting God's boundaries, fleeing from all forms of sexual immorality (including «soft - core» porn),
quickly confessing our sins and then doing the hard work of creating healthy relationships.
After King Henry II had St. Thomas Becket murdered, the sovereign was persuaded to
confess his sins publicly, strip to the waist, and be beaten by dozens of monks.
Officials — bishops, division directors, editors, and other grown - ups — are scheduled for intensive self - criticism workshops in order to discover and
confess their sins against «multicultural literacy.»
He can
confess his sins all he likes in the confessional, but without repentance there can be no forgiveness from God — and he will never repent, he's too proud.
His theory that Christ atoned for sin by making a confession of sin for the whole race of men has been often criticized on the ground that the sinless Christ can not
confess the sin from which he sets men free.
We see Nehemiah stand in the
gap confessing the sins his people as his own, though he never lived in Jerusalem and had nothing to do with the tangible cause of the burning of Jerusalem's walls.