Currently Humble Leadership: Being Radically Open to God's Guidance and Grace By N. Graham Standish see related

I used this quote from Bonhoeffer's Life Together in a sermon this morning and wanted to share it with you.  It think it's very powerful. 

“Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream.  The serious Christian, set down for the very time in a Christian community, is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and to try to realize it.  But God’s grace speedily shatters such dreams.  Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.  By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world.”

I invite you to think about what this means to you in regard to our culture and community and our understanding of what it means to be Christ's disciple.

Lenten Blessings,

Marja