Reason #9 why going to church this Sunday is the best plan:  IT WILL HELP YOU CONFESS YOUR SIN.  Of course you should confess your sins every day.  And when you do, God will forgive you.  1 John 1:9 promises “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”  But too often we are so busy, we forget to examine ourselves and lay our sins before God in repentance.  When we come together in corporate worship something wonderful happens:  we are humbled.  When we hear the praise music, when we listen to the teaching of God’s Word, when we see others praying, we are humbled before God.  Suddenly we are more apt to confess our sins before God in the quietness of our hearts.  It doesn’t need to be out loud or verbally to another person – though this is profitable also (James 5:16).  Just the very act of coming to church is the beginning of softening your heart to the Lord.  So when you are there, it is more likely that you will ask God to cleanse you and forgive you.  Psalm 139:23-24 says this… “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”  And after we have confessed we are assured that God’s forgiveness is real because of the shed blood of Jesus.  Ephesians 1:7 declares… “In Jesus we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.”