Confessing Our Sins Before Others, Part 3 (TMF:2189)

Thursday, September 28, 2023
Peace to Live By: Confessing Our Sins Before Others, Part 3 (TMF:2189) - Daniel Litton
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       People can get the idea that others are awesome super-Christians, and that they’re the only person struggling. But, when one of these so called super-Christians actually speaks up, and says, “You know, I have been struggling with this.” Or the person says, “I made this big mistake,” it can actually help those who are hearing. It can start to clear through the distortions that one has built up in their minds. One of my favorite books of all time is ‘Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy’ by David D. Burns. If you read chapter 14 of that book, the psychologist talks about perfectionism, and how he himself, though often believed to be perfect, actually was not perfect. And in that chapter he goes through a dialogue where, in front of a larger audience at a lecture, he actually confessed a wrong he had done when he was dealing with one of his patients. His humility only goes to back up everything he says in the book. That’s what humility often does. Now, it is true that sometimes when we confess our sins in front of others, there will be that one person, maybe two, who has a real problem with it.