Add PHBC prayers of confession

PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20241215.md

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+Father,
+
+We, mankind, have sinned against You.
+Through our sin, we have brought sickness, suffering, and death into the world.
+Not trusting You, we brought the misery of failing bodies and fading lives.
+In accord with our sinful nature, our bodies and desires would continually
+degrade without Your intervention.
+
+We have failed in seeking closeness with You.
+We neglect Your Word and we do not seek You in prayer as we should.
+We do not seek our rest in You.
+We often see pursuing closeness with You as a chore, as work rather than rest.
+We instead seek rest in our many hobbies and interest, in things good and in
+bad, we rest in Your good gifts and also in fruits You have not given us to eat
+of.
+We can even regard work as more restful than You, who should be our rest.
+
+We at times only seek You when we have problems.
+Even when we do have problems, we still often do not look to You to be our
+help.
+We come to You only as a last resort, or at other times we seek You only so we
+can cover over our laziness.
+
+We have not regarded with honor, the calling that You give to every Christian
+to steward the message of reconciliation.
+We regularly fail in joining You in carrying into the world the reconciliation
+that You brought forth Christ.
+If the first disciples who's ministry of reconciliation we are to continue had
+our zeal, we might never have heard of Christ.
+We live for ourselves, rather than Your Son.
+
+Now on the grounds that Christ became sin for us, that He died for us that we
+might live for Him, we come to You seeking that reconciliation.
+Please, receive us back, and help us to truly live Him who died for us.
+
+It is in His name that we ask this.
+Amen.