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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Believe Community Expectation
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
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God Human Tears Word
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Dare Father Gift Himself Need Secure
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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Divine Job
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
Advent creates people, new people.
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Creation One Liner People
May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
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God Himself Leadership Leaving Time
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Action Death Love Man Old Reflection
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
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Alone Guilty Love People Reality Religious Responsibility
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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Achievement Easy Gratitude Hard Help Important Life Rich

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

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So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

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