This is not what I had in mind. When I became a Christian, I though that I joined a family, that we all loved each other. Have you ever tried to get all the Christians in a room? I thought we were a body. But, not just any body– Christ’s. Far from his truth, we […]
In 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in Life Together, “Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. The more clearly we learn to recognize that the ground and strength and promise of all our fellowship is in Jesus Christ […]
The church is often not the new community that Christ died for us to live in to but organized factions working around each other and the needs that really matter.
In light of the most recent events, more police shootings, more protests and more calls for resignations, I needed Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s words from his book Life Together: “Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers […]