new church life: jan uary/february 2015
the Lord’s way is the right one, but the practice of actually trusting the Lord
enough to be a child following his Heavenly Father is one I find much harder
to apply. Yet it is so inspiring to think of this as a goal to strive toward. What
would my life look like if I were to trust the Lord more completely than I do?”
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O U R N E W C H U RC H V O C A B U L A R Y
Part of a continuing series developed by the Rev. W. Cairns Henderson, 1961-1966.
CONFESSION
This term has two usages – confessions of the Lord and confession of sin. In the first of
these it can mean simply a declaration of one’s faith before the Lord, but interior confession
involves humiliation and the affection of good. Confession of sins is to know evils, to see
them in one’s self, to acknowledge them, to make one’s self guilty, and to condemn one’s self
on account of them – this as contrasted with the idea of a general confession. (See Arcana
Coelestia 2329, 3880, 8388)
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