![]() Community comes from the Lord himself and is a gift of grace unequally distributed to the children of God. It reminds us Christian community is not established on the basis of common strengths, preferences, or anything visible on the earth. It makes the case for why and how we should pursue Christ as a body of believers. Chapter 1 explores what community life ought to look in the church. ![]() ![]() Here’s a brief overview of what you can expect in Bonhoeffer’s book. Overflowing with wisdom, you will run your highlighter dry if you are given to marking up books.Īs we consider the One Anothers in our weekly sermons, I would encourage you to pick up a copy. A small investment in reading Life Together will pay big dividends on doing life together. But it is one that invites you to think deeply about God’s design for his people. It’s this subject that entitles one of his most famous works, Life Together, posthumously subtitled, “The Classic Exploration of Christian Community.” Coming in at 122 pages, Life Together is not a long book. And in his later writings, he often returned to muse on life together in the local church. As a theological professor he labored to train pastors for the church. In his studies he wrote his first dissertation on life in the church (“The Communion of Saints: A Dogmatic Inquiry into the Sociology of the Church”). ![]() The local church was always at the center of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s heart and theology. ![]()
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