{"id":523,"date":"2011-08-04T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2015-04-22T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:37:57","slug":"songs-of-confession-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/songs-of-confession-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of Confession, this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, we will confess corporately as we always do. Well, not <em>exactly<\/em> as we always do. We will sing it, and we will recite it together, but we won&#8217;t confess silently. Although our corporate worship will always contain certain elements, those elements can take on a number of forms. We know that our liturgy, our traditions and our rituals can not and will not\u00a0supersede the life-giving Spirit or its work in our meetings. Thus our designs for worship should point believers to that very real, experience-altering presence promised in God&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?q=Matthew+18%3A18-20\">word<\/a>, while pointing the non-Christian to the gospel for security.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s explore some new ways to recount the gospel to each other in God&#8217;s presence Sunday. Consider this song of preparation &#8211; with confession at its heart &#8211; from one of my favorite Christian song writers, Brooks Ritter: <a href=\"http:\/\/sojournmusic.bandcamp.com\/track\/waters-of-forgiveness\">Waters of Forgiveness<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By his wounds, our debts were paid.<br \/>\nCome sinner, find your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/songs-of-confession-this-sunday\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, we will confess corporately as we always do. Well, not exactly as we always do. We will sing it, and we will recite it together, but we won&#8217;t confess silently. Although our corporate worship will always contain certain elements, those elements can take on a number of forms. We know that our liturgy, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-8r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}