Sublime

Wie sieht das Gegenprogramm aus? „Erweist euren Feinden wahre Liebe und tut ihnen Gutes. So werdet ihr euch als wahre Kinder des allmächtigen Gottes erweisen“ (Lukas 6,35; DBU).

Ethics as formation, then, means the bold endeavour to speak about the way in which the form of Jesus Christ takes form in our world, in a manner which is neither abstract nor casuistic, neither programmatic nor purely speculative. Concrete judgements and decisions will have to be ventured here. Decision and action can here no longer be delegated

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

Christians no longer live by their own resources, by accusing themselves and justifying themselves, but by God’s accusation and God’s justification. They live entirely by God’s Word pronounced on them, in faithful submission to God’s judgment, whether it declares them guilty or righteous.

Life Together deals with the nature of this Christ-centered community: the life of Christians living together, united in service to and for one another through prayer, the practice of confession, and partaking of the Lord’s Supper.

Jesus weder größenwahnsinnig noch ein Betrüger war.

“To rule is to be in the midst of your enemies. And whoever will not suffer this does not want to be part of the rule of Christ; such a person wants to be among friends and sit among the roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the religious people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would

Bonhoeffer is telling us what we all know in our hearts, if we’ll admit it to ourselves: these old myths were the stories we were told in our childhood. Now that we have come of age, we should put them aside and take responsibility for ourselves like adults,

Unless we have the courage to fight for a revival of wholesome reserve between man and man, we shall perish in an anarchy of human values.