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Confession (Lutheran Church)
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<p>In the <a href="/facts/Lutheranism/L4pMlRcS">Lutheran</a> Church, <a href="/facts/Confession_(religion)/lWqjNazG">Confession</a> (also called Holy Absolution) is the method given by Christ to the Church by which individual men and women may receive the forgiveness of sins; according to the <a href="/facts/Large_Catechism/5Pul9dsh">Large Catechism</a>, the "third sacrament" of Holy Absolution is properly viewed as an extension of Holy <a href="/facts/Baptism/wEY6gtGA">Baptism</a>. Unlike <a href="/facts/Catholic_Church/rJ4F4gqH">Roman Catholicism</a>, the practice of private confession in the <a href="/facts/Lutheran_Church_%25E2%2580%2593_Missouri_Synod/NcbWmVkA">Lutheran</a> Church is voluntary, not obligatory. </p>