Converting Me

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

a quick quote

Since I don't have a whole lot of time right now (getting married, working for the man, getting moshed by local kids...) I'm not going to leave a profound opinion or even a mindless rant...I'll just copy down a cool quote:

"Even in this new situation all the members of the community are given their special place; this is no longer the place, however, in which they can most successfully promote themselves, but the place where they can best carry out their service. In a Christian community, everything depends on whether each individual is an indispensible link in a chain. The chain is unbreakable only when even the smallest link holds tightly with the others. A community which permits itself members who do nothing will be destroyed by them. Thus it is a good idea that all members receive a definite task to perform for the community, so that they may know in times of doubt that they too are not useless and incapable of doing anything. Every Christian community must know that not only do the weak need the strong, but that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the community."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

1 Comments:

At 3:45 PM, Blogger Mike Rea said...

Bro', I just finished reading this book again. I read it about 5 years ago. This is probably the best book written on christian community more commonly known as church. What he talks about in this book is my hope for the church in this country. Somewhere else in the book he makes a great point that we should not be joined together by our strenghts but rather by our weaknesses; this is the common ground of Christ. Great stuff!!!

 

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