Repentance is not usually a moment wrought in high drama. It is the steady drumbeat of a life in Christ and, therefore, a day in Christ. In church each week, we repent together. We confess that we have sinned “in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone,” that we have neglected to love God with our whole hearts, and our neighbors as ourselves.4 This practice of communal confession is a vital way to enact the habit of confession that marks our daily lives. Through it we learn together the language of repentance and faith.
