If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse uss from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Forgiveness and reconciliation is often painful and uncomfortable. Maybe provides an example of costly grace. God grants forgiveness without condition.
Justification is by faith alone.
That is what Paul teaches. Bonhoeffer and Hauerwas are too gracious. Anabaptists fail to meet the mark. I will summon John Howard Yoder to my defense with regard to the first objection. But let us once set aside the assumption that the righteousness of God and the righteousness of man are most fundamentally located on the individual level.