I don't tend to think of real Christianity in terms of meetings -- though real Christianity can have official meetings. So confessions would seem to be more of a lifestyle involving your interaction with those you are comfortable.Michelle wrote:I dunno, that's why I'm asking...I would love to hear what people think.TK wrote:What form should this confession take? should we plan a "confession" meeting with our bros and sisses in the Lord and just have at it, or should it be a more spontaneous thing? If I have an unkind thought on my drive home from work, need I call someone to confess it?
TK
I used to have a friend that I had an agreement with to hold each other accountable about gossip. (Even though it's spoken about pretty negatively in scripture, no one really seems to think it all that toxic.) It was a good thing, but, then I never gossiped about Miriam because I admired her so much. What if I had. That would have been hard to confess, and I probably wouldn't have.
The passage probably isn't concerned about all sins but rather about the sharing process. With the sharing about your problems is where the healing or soundness of the body of Christ occurs.
Again the sharing of one person's problems may help someone, with more burdens, to share his problems. I do think we have to get rid of the idea of this "confession" as being a means of getting God's forgiveness.
Remember, the goal here is healing or soundness, toward the removal of wounds and problems in individual people and in the whole group.