aka “How Confessions Have Become Braver and More Blatant Over 125 Years.’”
If this was the title of our forthcoming history of the Box Hill Baptist Church, on 18 October (our BHBC Anniversary date) at the launch, the book might sell like hot cakes.
The media uses the word ‘confessions’ to signal an intimate disclosure designed to capture the audience’s attention. Such confessions might be brave and vulnerable but they are designed to garner readers and recognition rather than to bring about contrition and lead to a change of life. In a film entitled, ‘Confessions of a Window Cleaner’, viewers become an interested witness to things forbidden not participants who seek to support personal transformation.
This Sunday in our series on ‘Rediscovering Worship’ we are examining the element of Confession in public worship. It might be tempting to call the sermon ‘True Confessions’ but we’ll hope to learn from the Scripture why confession is essential and how genuine confession is not about exposure and revelation but about experiencing release and restoration.
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