Once Again

My fav confession brings it home again! This weekend Dave and I are participating in Living in Grace. It is a conference that all Mission to the World missionaries go through, as well as staff. I took it 7 years ago, and it really changed the way I think about God, and myself. Intown is doing the conference for all of its leaders (although it is abbreviated from its original format). It was Living in Grace that first introduced me to the Heidelberg Confession. Here is Question 60.

Q. 60 How are you right with God?
A. Only by true faith in Jesus Christ.
[1] Although my conscience accuses me that I have grievously sinned
against all God's commandments, have never kept any of them,[2] and am still inclined to all evil,[3] yet God, without any merit of my own,[4] out of mere grace,[5] imputes to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ.[6] He grants these to me as if I had never had nor committed any sin, and as if I myself had accomplished all the obedience which Christ has rendered for me,[7] if only I accept this gift with a believing heart.[8]

[1] Rom. 3:21-28; Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2:8, 9; Phil. 3:8-11.
[2] Rom. 3:9, 10.
[3] Rom. 7:23.
[4] Deut. 9:6; Ezek. 36:22; Tit. 3:4, 5.
[5] Rom. 3:24; Eph. 2:8.
[6] Rom. 4:3-5; II Cor. 5:17-19; I John 2:1, 2.
[7] Rom. 4:24, 25; II Cor. 5:21.
[8] John 3:18; Acts 16:30, 31; Rom. 3:22.