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Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.
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determination
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John Fowles |
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When church becomes for us an anointed have, when the grace is flowing and all is well we become sentimental...we remake people into what we need them to be. We are not wise in our love, prudent in our commitments, knowing in our fellowship. And so the evil comes and we are first amazed and then destroyed and then knocked off our axis as if never to return.
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church-hurt
church-relations
spiritual-maturity
local-church
healing
sin
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Stephen Mansfield |
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Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima
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salvation
ignorance
knowledge
sin
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Scott Westerfeld |
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Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids of modernity it has volunteered itself right out of existence. Demystification has dwindled into desacralization. The escape from routinization has become a convenient cover for the demise of repentance. The postmodern pastor is trying to learn anew to listen to the deeper range of feelings of others, without forgetfulness of the Word of God.
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confession
ministry
pastoral-care
church
sin
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Thomas C. Oden |
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Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.
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sins-of-commission
sins-of-omission
forgiveness
sin
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Thomas C. Oden |
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The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.
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ministry
pastoral-care
sin
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Thomas C. Oden |