It's In the Code Ep. 49: Public Confession
Straight White American Jesus
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The Different Forms of Public Confession
I've seen it take different forms. It's not usually simply something sort of doctrinal or esoteric. It's usually a moral failing of some kind. And very often, though not always, but it might be hard to find very many exceptions to this, it's often of an explicitly sexual nature. I've seen instances where a congregant was compelled to publicly share misdeeds for the under threat of expulsion from the church. The tradition I grew up in, and we talked about this some on the podcast, are things most evangelical traditions don't have what a Catholic might call excommunication.
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