Most of us do not take criticism well. We get defensive, make excuses, or blame others. Nor do we engage in much self reflection or acknowledgement of our personal failings.
A lot of churches have deleted the prayer of confession from their Sunday morning orders of worship because of complaints that “those prayers are too depressing,” or “those things don’t apply to me.” Ponder: if a prayer of confession is too much to stomach, what right does a prophet from 2,500 years ago have to make us feel guilty, to throw stones at our worship practices, to cast aspersions on our expressions of piety?
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