Confessing…Savation or Fellowship?

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (Vs.1-9) “Years ago my wife and I took my mom to a food pantry at a Baptist church in my town. They insisted on everyone staying for a message before handing out the food, which I thought that was a good idea having lost people of course in the midst of this hearing the word is a wonderful idea. My problem with this came when it was invitation time, the preacher went to our text here in verse 9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” I have a biblical problem with that, because we don’t see this verse in the entirety of the context speaking to a lost person nor is it dealing with salvation! Notice back in verse 6 it says, “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:” We see a fellowship issue here concerning a father and son! We know that a lost person isn’t in fellowship with the Father, because they aren’t a child of the Father to be a son. We know this plainly because in Galatians 3:26 it reads , “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” And once a child a God the child is to, “…walk by faith, not by sight:)” (2 Cor. 5:7) They have yet to come to Christ by faith, so this isn’t a verse speaking to them. A piece of mail in your mailbox addressed to you isn’t mail that’s for me! So, why then use a verse that’s a child and father fellowship issue and then try to apply it to a lost sinner? To me that sounds like a failure to rightly divide, a person doesn’t understand the scriptures and needs to learn before they speak. I understand the reasoning of wanting a sinner to be saved which is a wonderful desire we should all have for the lost, but the only way for them to be saved is by bringing them to the gospel, (1 Cor. 15:1-4) not a waterdowned attempt that’s so dry that it’s evaporated. Whether it’s ignorance or fear none the less they have to be brought to the bloody cross of Calvary in order that they may be saved.”