Re-reading Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I have been re-staggered by his sheer realism of Kingdom perspective. Bonhoeffer is no religious hack mass producing religious visions of a utopian ideal - an ideal that only serves to wear thin before wearing out the Christian community. "Innumerable times a whole Christian Community has been shattered because... Continue Reading →
"The Reformation set free the question and nature of the church from the question of who belongs to it. This was a decisive stage. Roman Catholicism and the pre-Reformation church had thought that the question of the nature of the church would be answered by a definition of its extent. The Reformation, and particularly the... Continue Reading →
I was met with mercy. And so sings the entire Christian community with every new day. "I was met with mercy" - when my heart was hardened against God, when I was following my own path of sin, when I loved my sin more than I loved God, when my sin had led me into... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 