{"id":9960,"date":"2024-03-19T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/?page_id=9960"},"modified":"2024-03-19T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:23:40","slug":"confession","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"9960\" class=\"elementor elementor-9960\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d39928c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d39928c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-186ad3f\" data-id=\"186ad3f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6fd1f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e6fd1f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"center\"><strong>From the Small Catechism<\/strong><\/p><p align=\"center\"><strong>*Concerning Confession<\/strong><\/p><p align=\"center\">How Christians should be taught to Confess<\/p><p align=\"center\">What is Confession?*<\/p><p align=\"center\">Answer:\u00a0Confession embraces two parts: the one is, that we confess our sins; the other, that we receive absolution, or forgiveness, from the confessor, as from God Himself, and in no wise doubt, but firmly believe, that our sins are thereby forgiven before God in heaven.<\/p><p align=\"center\">What sins should we confess?<\/p><p align=\"center\">Answer:\u00a0Before God we should plead guilty of all sins, even of those which we do not know, as we do in the Lord\u2019s Prayer. But before the confessor we should confess those sins alone which we know and feel in our hearts.<\/p><p align=\"center\">\u00a0Which are these? Answer:\u00a0Here consider your station according to the Ten Commandments, whether you are a father, mother, son, daughter, master, mistress, a man-servant or maid-servant; whether you have been disobedient, unfaithful, slothful; whether you have grieved any one by words or deeds; whether you have stolen, neglected, or wasted aught, or done other injury.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Small Catechism *Concerning Confession How Christians should be taught to Confess What is Confession?* Answer:\u00a0Confession embraces two parts: the one is, that we confess our sins; the other, that we receive absolution, or forgiveness, from the confessor, as from God Himself, and in no wise doubt, but firmly believe, that our sins are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9966,"href":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9960\/revisions\/9966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christstpete.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}