Ziman: Confession, Grace and Repentance...

Note: A pic of my BFF Jonathan and his lovely wife Kari taken this year during their family vacation to New Jersey. Why someone would vacation in New Jersey is beyond me.

One of my buddies Jonathan Ziman is in seminary right now at Trinity in Chicago. He sometimes emails me ideas/thoughts/quotes from his classes. This one (I think taken from a class he's taking in Biblical counseling) is quite sobering.

"Confession doesn't get grace, repentance does, and continual sin will keep you from repenting. Faith is nourished by obedience, and disobedience deadens your faith."

Jonathan's commentary: I.E. - you can keep sinning and confessing your sin and then sinning some more and thinking the whole time that you are ok and its not a big deal and nobody is getting hurt because the sin is internal only, etc. etc. But in reality you are suffocating your soul and making it harder and harder to actually ever move towards repentance and grace. Powerful, and kind of scary thought really, don't you think?