"The first service one owes to others in the community involves listening to them. Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them. God’s love for us is shown by the fact that God not only gives us God’s... Continue Reading →
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 →
Pastoral expectations, idealisms, fantasy's and fictions are often held by both pastor and congregation. Pastors have very high hopes (in God) for the church and often live with having these high hopes unrealised, unmet and often dashed upon the rocks of their own inflated ego. Congregations on the other hand, have very high hopes (in... 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 