Christians, too, have inherited this way of talking about weakness and confession, though it is alien to the New Testament. These are confessions of imperfections on our terms. It is a laissez-faire spirituality that boasts of weakness but is safe from criticism and reproof. This sort of authenticity seeks to confess in order to be merely received. Christianity is quite different. Christianity also boasts of weakness (see the apostle Paul), but makes the self vulnerable to change and transformation.
