Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light. In the darkness of the
unexpressed it poisons the whole being of a person. . . . In confession the
light of the Gospel breaks into the darkness and seclusion of the heart. Now
the fellowship bears the sin of the brother. He is no longer alone with his
evil for he has cast off his sin in confession and handed it over to God. . . .
Now he stands in the fellowship of sinners who live by the grace of God in the
Cross of Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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