Why does the Bible tell us to confess our sins to one another and what happens when we stop? In this episode of In Between Sundays, Tony Johnson and Maggie Freeman sit down with Dr Wes Beavis, clinical psychologist, to close out our three-part series on spiritual disciplines with the one most of us avoid: confession.
This is not the confession you grew up picturing. It's not a booth, a priest, or a list of guilts read to a stranger. It's James 5:16 "Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed" and the conversation asks a question most churches quietly duck.
Our crew works through the psychology of shame, why secrets lose their power the moment they're spoken out loud, how to tell a safe person from an unsafe one, and what it takes to build the kind of relationships where real confession can happen. Plus a story from Psalm 32 that will reframe how you read David's whole life, and a lesson from aviation about why one-degree course corrections beat catastrophe recovery every time.
📖 SCRIPTURE REFERENCED
James 5:16 · Psalm 32 · 2 Samuel 12 · 1 John 1:9
