There Are No Bad Confessions

Uh-oh. In light of something Dave said in our call yesterday, I think I need to change something I’ve said a zillion times—and something that is permanently “out there” in Peacemaking Women and Living the Gospel in Relationships …

Even though I usually talk about “bad confessions” when I teach the Peacemaker Ministries Seven A’s of Confession, I think I need to stop using that term. This is the quote from Dave that is convicting me BIG TIME:

‘There is really no such thing as a bad confession. A bad confession is just no confession at all. You have great confessions and you have no confession. You can try to use the language of confession, but it’s a non-confession, a non-spiritual entity (it has nothing to do with God).

Non-confession is called hardness of heart. Hardness of heart leads to explanations, not confessions.’

Yowza. That one’s gonna stick with me for a long time.