Pastoral Confessions : The Healing Path to Faithful Ministry

Pastors are not immune to sin, yet they are often tempted or even pressured to hide their transgressions, leading to discouragement, shame, and isolation. This unexpectedly honest book from a fellow pastor shows how to identify the root causes of pastoral sin, embrace the practice of confession, and find healing in forgiveness.

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.