IN PREPARATION

Confession is good for the soul... Some have become uncomfortable with the explicit language of sin, replacing it instead with more therapeutic and positive messages. When we do that, though, we remove the heart of the gospel, eviscerating everything that makes it really good news. If it is not clear what we have been saved from, why is it so tremendous that we have been saved?... The purpose of confessing our sins is not to render us miserable by simply reminding us what great sinners we are. It is to remind us of what a great Savior we have. We confess that “there is no health in us” in order that our hearts may be drawn afresh to the Great Physician of our souls, who has provided for our desperate need for cleansing in the gospel.
– Ian Duguid