 As the priesthood of all believers, you can forgive one another's sins. Did you know that? You can forgive one another's sins. You really can. God also desires there be a very official absolution man on the book. Just as the 120 believers there would indeed be tasked with spreading the word of God, God also wanted 12 men to be on the book as witnesses. This is how our Lutheran confessions mention it. This is from the Augsburg Confession.