[wmfights]

Public or personal confession to those we've wronged is light years away (thank God) from confessing your sins to "another Christ" and asking for his absolution.

Amen.

Eventually the truth of a thing will emerge. The challenge is to keep confronting the big lie, if we don't people begin to believe it. I think you can trace all these wrong headed beliefs to the failed theory of apostolic succession.

[Quix]

However, as we discovered in the San Diego Charismatic house church . . .

where the RULE was . . . we immediately confessed to whomever we’d wronged—and the whole group if we had say been late or some such offending the group . . .

The one(s) receiving our repentance would, of course, reply with “You’re forgiven.” And, they had to follow through acting accordingly in tone, attitude, word and deed as did the repentee.

In our guilt flinging society with such epidemic horrors of parenting . . . PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR THAT THEY ARE FORGIVEN.