One of my good friends gave me a chapter out of the book Life Together. I don’t know who the book is by, but the chapter she gave me is entitled Confession and Communion. One of the first quotes that caught my eye was the following: 

The sin concealed separated him from the fellowship, made all his apparent fellowship a sham; the sin confessed has helped him to find true fellowship with the brethren in Jesus Christ.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the fellowship I have with my brothers and sisters in Christ. And I am ashamed to say that more often than not, that fellowship has not been entirely real. It’s so easy to conceal sin or to attempt to deal with it by ourselves. I’ve fallen into that trap too often. And yet, I forget what true fellowship is like. I forget the beauty of being humbled before your Christian brothers and sisters by confessing your downfalls, your weaknesses, your sins… it’s hard. As this chapter says… Click to continue »