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Today, I want to continue the thought of Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson in their work, The Cost of Moral Leadership: The Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer about the reason Bonhoeffer wrote the classic book, Life Together…
Bonhoeffer also acknowledged the urgent need for the church to discover new and different ways to be the church. He thus emphasized the courageous following of Jesus Christ within a genuine community formed along the lines of the gospel, not the typical kind of church gatherings where strangers met and remain strangers, and whose dull blandness offered little resistance to the political ideology that had successfully gained the allegiance of most churchgoers.
In Bonhoeffer’s spirituality, effective moral leadership and one’s personality strengths are supported in and through the sharing of convictions that takes place in genuine Christian communities where the teachings of Jesus Christ, not political ideology, should inspire believers (146).
Life Together still has much to say to the church in the twenty-first century.
What is the current condition of the church or small group of Christians we are part of? It it centered around the person and teachings of Jesus Christ?
Does our “Life Together” cause spiritual growth and Christ likeness among our brothers and sisters in Jesus?
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