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As I continue to reflect on unity as we walk through our current series at Eastrook Church, "One: The Being of God in the Life of the Church," here is a powerful quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together on the necessary tension between solitude and community: Let him who cannot be alone beware of …
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In my sermon this past weekend, "A Crash Course in Church Growth," I paraphrased some thoughts from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together about how disillusionment in the church is a gift from God. I mentioned the need to give thanks for the gift of disillusionment with the church that God gives to us. Here are …
In my last sermon at Brooklife on 1 Corinthians 12 about the body of Christ and each members' place in it, I mentioned what is in my opinion the best book on the church and true Christian community. That book is Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran theologian, professor, and author …
Matthew Erickson 