Call to Confession
ExpandConfession is the instinctive response of a natural person to a Holy God. Isaiah says in chapter 6, “I am a man of unclean lips” in response to his sense of God’s holiness.
Silent Confession
Unison Confession
O King and Father, your Son died and was raised up in power. Your Holy Spirit indwells and empowers us.
Now enable us to die to our sin in repentance so we may rise to new life in Him. We confess to you:
Father, we confess that we are afraid and in our fear we stop trusting You. Help us to resist the temptations of diversion and addiction and to turn to You and You alone for worship. Forgive us Father, and make us whole.
Jesus, we confess that we are anxious and do not cast our cares upon You. We confess that we define “blessed” the way we want, instead of the way You defined it - a life given over to Your strength and care. Forgive us Jesus, and empower us to follow You easily and whole heartedly.
Holy Spirit, we confess and acknowledge that we go other places for assurance and peace. Calm and quiet our spirits, Holy Spirit. Forgive us for asking things to deliver what only You can. Forgive us Holy Spirit, and sanctify us.
While it is true that we have sinned, it is a greater truth that through God's love in Jesus Christ we are forgiven. God has shown his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds we have been healed.
--Romans 5:8, I Peter 2:24
I declare to you in the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.