About this episode

Jamin Goggin discusses the importance of confession in healing and the fears that prevent people from being honest about their struggles.

“The fear of our heart is built on sin’s great lie: that the place of healing is the place of harm. That the chalice of confession is filled with poison. That the medicine God has provided cannot be trusted. We have come to believe that confession is not a place of life but instead a place of death.” Those words from Jamin Goggin’s book, Pastoral Confessions , capture the heart of this entire conversation. Most of us know we’re supposed to confess. We know we’re supposed to be honest with God. We know we’re supposed to live in authentic community. And yet we hide. We hide because confession feels dangerous. It feels exposing. It feels costly. We fear what people will think. We fear rejection. We fear consequences. We fear that if we tell the truth about what is really going on inside of us, everything might fall apart. But what if the very thing we fear is the thing God intends to use for our healing? Jamin Goggin is a professor at Talbot School of Theology, former pastor, and author of Pastoral Confessions: The Healing Path to Faithful Ministry . After spending two decades in ministry, he became convinced that many pastors—and many…

People in this episode

Host: Jon Seidl

Guest: Jamin Goggin

Topics covered

• confession
• healing
• authentic community
• sin
• self-deception
• Christian struggles

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Pastoral Confessions, Pastoral Confessions: The Healing Path to Faithful Ministry

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