In Forgive Us, my coauthors and I present the necessity of corporate confession for effective Christian witness. At this moment in history, the American church is often ridiculed or portrayed as unforgiving and ungracious. Could the church offer a counter-narrative, not of defensiveness or derision, but of an authentic confession and genuine reconciliation? . . . It is antithetical to the gospel when we do not confess all forms of sin—both individual and corporate. The reason evangelicals can claim to be followers of Jesus is because there has been an acknowledgement of sin and the seeking of
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