TIL 256: The Importance of Confession
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Featuring: - The counselors need for confession (1 Jn 1:8-9; Jas 5:13-16) - The importance of practicing confession - Wisdom on confession from Thomas Watson Notes: The Doctrine of Repentance - Thomas Watson https://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Repentance-Puritan-Paperbacks-Thomas/dp/0851515215
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| 0:00.0 | The Importance of Confession on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:17.1 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.0 | Today on Truth and Love, I want us to go into a direction that is maybe a little uncomfortable, |
| 0:29.2 | unfortunately so for we who believe. But I want us to go into a direction where we talk about |
| 0:35.0 | repentance and confession. Now, in biblical counseling, this is a big |
| 0:39.2 | deal. We talk about repentance. We talk about confession quite a bit. We often talk about the |
| 0:44.8 | importance of repentance. We talk about the councilee and helping them to understand how and where |
| 0:52.1 | to repent about issues as the Lord reveals issues in their life. |
| 0:57.1 | Today, what I want to do is certainly not minimize that, but I want to highlight why repentance |
| 1:02.4 | and confession are so critical when it comes to healing in the soul. |
| 1:08.8 | And in moments like this, what I want to focus on is not so much the |
| 1:14.5 | counsellee. I want us to start focusing on we who are in ministry, we who are often doing the |
| 1:20.9 | counseling. In this era of pandemic, it's interesting to me what the Lord is doing in many of us. And what we are accustomed to |
| 1:30.8 | doing, especially as the counselor or the one who is in ministry, is we're accustomed to teaching |
| 1:36.7 | about repentance. We're accustomed to talking about repentance. We're accustomed to helping people |
| 1:43.6 | repent and turn from their own sin and to confess |
| 1:48.4 | those sins. But maybe it's not something that we practice in particular, or maybe it's not |
| 1:53.7 | something that we do regularly. I think it's important during this season as the Lord continues to reveal issues in our own life, |
| 2:04.4 | right? We're at home much more and we see ourselves as this drags on. Maybe we're not speaking |
| 2:11.8 | as kindly as we normally do. Maybe it is that we find ourselves in our normal busyness of life. We're sort of passing in the night. |
| 2:19.0 | But now, man, we're actually having to have real conversation, slow down and engage with one another at a deeper level. |
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