Life Together
July 24, 2006 – 7:56 pmby Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Excellent book. I would recommend just about everyone read this.
Some quotations from chapter 5 “Confession and Communion”:
“Confess your faults to one another” (Jas 5:16). He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship.* We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy. The fact is that we are sinners!
*that emphasis mine
It is not experience of life but experience of the Cross that makes one a worthy hearer of confessions.
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