This year, winter break has meant more alone time. In my solitude I’ve been reading through Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, an “exploration of Christian community”. It’s been insightful in many ways.
This quote encouraged me, showing that our times alone affect our times together.
The individual must realize that his hours of aloneness react upon the community. In his solitude he can sunder and besmirch the fellowship, or he can strengthen and hallow it. Every act of self-control of the Christian is also a service to the fellowship.
On the other hand, there is no sin in thought, word, or deed, no matter how personal or secret, that does not inflict injury upon the whole fellowship. An element of sickness gets into the body; perhaps nobody knows where it comes from or in what member it has lodged, but the body is infected. This is the proper metaphor for the Christian community. We are members of a body, not only when we choose to be, but in our whole existence. Every member serves the body, either to its health or to its destruction. This is no mere theory; it is a spiritual reality. And the Christian community has often experienced its effects with disturbing clarity, sometimes destructively and sometimes fortunately.
I’ve got another quote from Bonhoeffer about Bible reading coming soon.
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I enjoyed this so much I shared in during the table meeting today.
Great to hear! Hope all is well. So far it seems Dietrich Bonhoeffer really fits with Andrew Yu’s message 4 of the Daniel, Zechariah Training by the way.
It is. I hope likewise. I’ll have to remember that when I get my CDs in the mail. Looking forward to hear what’s in those books. Keep the quotes coming!