Lie: I can live the Christian life on my own.
Truth: We can live the Christian life only in concert with other believers in Christ.
Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s little book on community, is a beautiful portrait of the communal life of an ‘underground’ seminary in 1930s Finkenwalde, Poland, where students shared their lives in Christian simplicity. We love these idyllic glimpses, and think wistfully of them as quaint, but outdated and impractical. The reality is, most often, we simply live Life Alone.
More accurately though, we tolerate a love-hate relationship with the alone-together dilemma . . .
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