first make confession of your faults, so that your sacrifice may be a pure one. Anyone who has a difference with his fellow is not to take part with you until they have been reconciled, so as to avoid any profanation of your sacrifice” (14:1–2).10 Prior to partaking in offering the sacrifice of thanksgiving to God (Eucharist), therefore, the baptized members of the church are to confess their sins to, and seek reconciliation with, one another. Glen Stassen’s exegesis of the heart of the Sermon on
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