The Creed - Week Five: The Forgiveness Of Sins
I was five years old when I learned a valuable lesson about confession and forgiveness--a lesson I have never forgotten to this day. Can I tell you that at five years old, I was a straight up theologian? Seriously. By the time I was five I had heard scores of sermons, endured countless altar calls in the little Baptist church we attended, and because of this I knew one unalterable fact: If I sincerely asked God to forgive me---no matter what I had done---God would forgive me. So on that fateful day in the grocery store when I was--to coin a very Southern term--acting a fool, and my mom, who is the most patient human being on the planet told me I was getting a whooping when I got home... I decided that the only thing left to me was to bring it to God. I found a spot by a stack of canned beans and started to pray. The fact that I can recall that I was praying by a stack of canned beans is beyond me. Of all of the details of th...