11. Prayer: Confessing Our Sins In the New Covenant

Confession is one of the most misunderstood and misused of the spiritual disciplines of prayer. Many Protestants remain thoroughly Catholic in their view of confession seeking to gain forgiveness for their sins through earnestness, through contrition and sacrifice rather than trusting in the blood of Christ. Many, not understanding the doctrines of Imputation and Propitiation live in fear that some sin in their past has gone unconfessed and as a result their standing before God at the judgment seat of Christ remains an uncertainty. Many have been robbed of the blessed hope of the elect as they fear the “Protestant Purgatory” where at the Judgment Seat of Christ there will be one last great humiliation before they are allowed into heaven. Others live in fear in this life, pondering what bad things God will do to them because of their sins, both confessed and unconfessed. Confession and it's twin subject Repentance is presented in a sound biblically doctrinal approach with direct applications, not from fear but from the Word of God.