The test of our meditation, of impressing ourselves with God’s Word and making it our own, is how we respond when we are out in the world: do we forsake Christ or further proclaim His Word?Ĭhapter 4 – We can only be effective ministers of God’s Word if we are effective in all of our ministries.
This is not to be used for focusing upon other issues or to attempt to understand scripture, but to simply have God’s Word impress our minds. As God worked for six days and rested on the seventh, so we should understand that most of each of our days will be consumed for work, but this work will be as a prayer and unto God.Ĭhapter 3 – We should dedicate an hour per day to meditation and reflection. They must not only work together, but also understood in proportion to each other. What we should be weary of is having our prayer life hinder our work life and our work life hinder our prayer life. The central issue everyone in Christian community will face is this: will you view your fellow friend in the eyes of God, and therefore in God’s image, or in your own eyes, and try to form them in your image?Ĭhapter 2 – We should begin and end each day in the community of believers and in the Word of Christ. But, in any case, we do not live for the experience of Christian community but will seek to understand what that community means and how it is to function for those who do find it.
The following paragraphs may be skipped, but they are provided to add a bit of context to each of the quotes:Ĭhapter 1 – Christian community can be found in almost any circumstance: for long periods of time or for as short as a prayer. Of course, another who reads through this work may find a different collection (as the one I currently possess has highlighter marks – though against the rules of borrowing the book – which I didn’t always find helpful.) As he often writes, Christian Community can only be found, “in Christ and through Christ.” Below are a collection of quotes that I found to be exemplary in point, precision, and articulation. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic, Life Together (found here), explores not only the importance of Christian community but how that community should be grounded in and conducted through Jesus Christ.
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