Pastoral Confessions

The Healing Path to Faithful Ministry

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In an age of pastoral abuse, scandal, and failure, many pastors feel pressured to appear sinless. They are tempted to conceal their sin rather than risk vulnerability or disqualification from ministry. But concealing sin is spiritually dangerous, for both the pastor and the church. Unconfessed sin leads to guilt, shame, exhaustion, and loneliness. Instead, God invites pastors to confess, repent, and be healed, just like every other Christian.

Using the seven deadly sins as a framework, Pastoral Confessions offers burdened and burned-out pastors a healthy way forward out of the quagmire of hidden sins. With great vulnerability and refreshing honesty, pastor Jamin Goggin writes of his own temptations and sins, especially those that uniquely appeal to the pastor's heart and plague the pastoral profession. He shows pastors how to integrate regular confession to God and others, leading to a more hopeful, fruitful, and virtuous life and ministry.

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  1. Jamin Goggin

    Jamin Goggin

    Jamin Goggin is a pastor, writer, and professor. He served in pastoral ministry for twenty years at several churches, including Saddleback Church. Jamin is a ministry affiliate faculty professor at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University and the director...

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