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Words that sound incredibly strange from Bonhoeffer
The way to wholeness and healing is to recognize there is a sickness.
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There really isn’t “personal” sin
Every act of self-discipline by a Christian is also a service to the community. Conversely, there is no sin in thought, word, or deed, no matter how personal or secret, that does not harm the whole community. When the cause of an illness gets into one’s body, whether or not anyone knows where it comes from, or in what member…
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The power of intercession
Offering intercessory prayer means nothing other than Christians bringing one another into the presence of God, seeing each other under the cross of Jesus as poor human beings and sinners in need of grace. Then, everything about other people that repels me falls away. Then I see them in all their need, hardship, and distress. Their need and their sin…
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Community of Christ
Whoever cannot be alone should beware of community. Whoever cannot stand being in community should beware of being alone. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the…
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Bonhoeffer on Christian Community
Every human idealized image that is brought into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be broken up so that genuine community can survive. Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest,…
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Spirit empowered prayer
Quick thought for the morning from Rom. 8:26-30. I am being formed into the image of the Holy One. Spirit-empowered prayer is crucial in my formation. A quick quote from Bonhoeffer: “Their hearts are fully absorbed in seeing God.” Lord, today let my heart be trained for the yearning I need to know you!
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No rights we claim as the people of God
No rights they might claim protect this community of strangers in the world. Nor do they claim any such rights, for they are the meek, who renounce all rights of their own for the sake of Jesus Christ. When they are berated, they are quiet. When violence is done to them, they endure it. When they are cast out, they…
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The freedom NOT to worry
Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry.
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Prayer and Waiting
Solid advice from Richard Foster and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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Hype
I will say on this on a blog. This will then automatically connect to my Twitter and Facebook accounts. So, what I’m about to say goes against how I am going to communicate it. That’s the hypocrisy of this exercise. This is about hype. It’s about how in the western Church we are all about what is “epic” or the…
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