Call to Confession • Amanda Emberley • Ascension Online

Описание: Catch up with the talk from this week's Sunday service.
Today Amanda talks about how confession is a powerful and necessary practice in the Christian faith, allowing for the restoration of God's image in us and the overcoming of temptation and sin.

1. 00:00 🔍 Confession is important for healing and often misunderstood in popular culture, leading to confusion and misinterpretation of its true meaning.

2. 03:48 🙏 Sin has been trivialised, but the Book of James warns against double-mindedness and urges Christians to help others turn from sin and extend a hand of confession and salvation, as self-absorption and self-protection lead to a distortion of God's image in us and rejection of his invitation to relationship.

3. 08:39 🙏 God extends a hand in a call to confession, sending his son to embrace humanity and bring us back to him, despite our sinful nature in a selfie-obsessed culture.

4. 13:14 🙏 Confession is important for defeating sin and allowing the Holy Spirit to work in our lives, as it brings our struggles into the light and allows us to rely on the support of other Christians.

5. 16:43 🙏 Confession is a call to freedom from sin, involving confessing sins to one another in community and praying for healing.

6. 19:48 🙏 Confession requires vulnerability, courage, and commitment, leading to freedom and a closer relationship with Christ.

7. 22:46 🙏 Confessing temptations helps you be set free from them.

8. 26:32 🙏 Confession is about admitting sin, professing faith, and building each other up in our commitment to Christ, calling us to be courageous in covering each other's sins and confessing for healing and freedom.

Recorded at our service on 2nd June 2024.