Confess Your Sins: The Way of Reconciliation
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Confession is a powerful part of Christian life. Confession brings forgiveness and forgiveness brings reconciliation. In this brief volume, Stott examines how confession and forgiveness are central to Christianity and how it must be a forgiveness of love and mercy rather than mere sentimentality.
Top Highlights
“As soon as David uncovered his sins, God covered them, for God can only cover with his forgiveness the sins which we uncover in our confession.” (Page 11)
“The rule is always that secret sins must be confessed secretly (to God), and private sins must be confessed privately (to the injured party).” (Page 20)
“One of the greatest snares to which Christians are exposed in the contemporary world is the tendency to grow accustomed to sin.” (Page 12)
“What is at stake, we are told, is our spiritual prosperity, whether we receive or forfeit the mercy of God. Many of us are not prospering in our Christian lives. We are making little or no progress. We have got stuck and do not appear to be enjoying the mercy of God. Is the reason partly or wholly that we have neglected the plain teaching of this Scripture about the secret confession of our sins to God?” (Page 7)
“It may indeed be that, by the grace of God, there are days when no actual transgression stains the conscience or memory of the Christian. But still there are sins of omission to confess, for no man has loved God with all his heart, mind, soul, and strength; and there is the infection and corruption of our fallen nature to mourn, as we acknowledge that ‘there is no health in us.’” (Pages 8–9)
- Title: Confess Your Sins: The Way of Reconciliation
- Author: John Stott
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 1964
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Confession › Anglican Communion
- ISBNs: 9780802875099, 0802875092
- Resource ID: LLS:CNFSSYRWRCNCLTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:51:55Z
John Stott CBE (1921 – 2011) was a Christian leader and Anglican clergyman who is noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He is famous as one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. John Stott was ordained into the ministry of the Church of England in 1945 and has served the same church ever since. He was assistant pastor of All Souls for 5 years, the senior pastor (Rector) for 25, and Rector Emeritus since 1975. During the last quarter century he had been set free (under the auspices of the Langham Partnership) to travel the world, especially for ministry to pastors and students. He has been a Chaplain to the Queen since 1959. He was President of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.