Translations:TC 2: How You Can Experience God’s Love and Forgiveness/44/en

Consider with me the principles of spiritual “exhaling” as they apply to the Christian life. (We will discuss the process of spiritual “inhaling” in the following chapter.) We read in 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He [God] is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” The word confess (in the Greek, homologeo) suggests agreement with God concerning our sins. Confession is a threefold process: