Seeking other resources that speak into Authentic Community, I naturally landed back at Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, The Classic Exploration of Christian Community. Older and hopefully wiser at this point in my life, I gobbled the book up like a good meal and started using quotes from it, asking questions about it and encouraging others to read it. Years later, now, while working on the SERVE 2017 theme materials, I fell more and more in love with the very concept we’re trying to reiterate, Authentic Community. Like most 18 year-olds, Bonhoeffer’s writing was far beyond the grasp of both my attention and my comprehension. “The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.”Īs a freshman in college, I was assigned the reading of Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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