Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together As Christians Under The Word Of God

Benchmark Assignment: Gospel Essentials So much of society seems to live his/her life on a sort of self-serving autopilot mode. Rarely does one stop to think how or why he/she is making certain decisions or how these decisions can affect his/her life in the future. Often times, it is not until one has a “string of bad luck” or something tragic happens in one’s life, when he/she will turn to Jesus for help “getting them through this problem” only to return to one’s self-centered ways once his/her life has returned to normal. Living life with a Christian worldview is not something that one can take off a shelf and use when needed and allow it to collect dust on that shelf the rest of the time. This paper will discuss the many parts that make

Everyone has a certain way that they believe a Christian should live, but how does one sort through all the beliefs being thrown at them from different denominations and sections of the church to find how to be the real Christian? According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, Christianity is defined as “the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices; Christian quality or character.“ With the several different denominations across the world, it doesn’t seem anyone really agrees on how to really be of “Christian quality or character.” The truth of the matter is, it doesn’t matter what denomination someone is in. Being apart of a certain denomination doesn’t determine whether you are a real

Pg. 207 “Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death”, Bonhoeffer had been challenging his seminarians to make the choice before them to embrace the cross of Christ by sharing in his suffering and death

Bonhoeffer's Discipleship During the postmodern time period of theology during which the religious landscape had developed into a multi-centered, experience-oriented social imaginary as expressed by influential philosophers such as Friedrich Hegel and Immanuel Kant, Dietrich Bonhoeffer offered a revolutionary theology that pushed back against these pluralistic notions of religion and Christianity.

Living in Christian community is a necessity for the everyday life of a Christian. Without community, the Christian has no one else to “sharpen” them, no one else to understand the everyday struggle of living in the world, sharing the Gospel, but not partaking in the sinful ways of the world. In “Life Together”, Dietrich Bonhoeffer explores Christian community, and presents not only the benefits of Christian community, but also the toxins that can destroy the community. Living in Christian community brings incomparable joy and community in and through Jesus Christ, but can be easily lost due to humanistic ideals, or “dreams”.

While the following essay will focus on this discussion of the essence of Christianity, it is important to note that Schleiermacher recognises that there is the possibility, and reality, of

(Bonhoeffer 75) From this passage, Bonhoeffer states that our brothers and sisters in Christ reflect the voice of God. He explains that if people do not know listen to their brother and sister in Christ then it means you are not listening to God. God works and reflects on his children-That means all his children. Overall, in what I learned from Bonhoeffer based on this passage is to listen to our brothers and sister in Christ. As Christians, we believe that is to our self and do not listen to the people around us. Personally, I believe as a leader of an important area in my church is very important for me to listen to my fellow brothers and sister in Christ. I also believe that my team (who are children of Christ) should listen to me because if they do not listen to me then that means they are not listening to God.

Our love for Christ binds us together like brothers with a spiritual connection. The street

I was asked to read “A Christian Manifesto” by Francis A. Schaeffer and what follows is my take on the book. I will share a summary of what I have taken from the book, as well as explain the applications from the knowledge attained from reading the book.

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A personal worldview holds ministering Jesus to the dark dying world as a result; I believe its truth to establish the flawless word of the almighty God. Besides that, the word of God has convictions, and values which are the foundation of all things, observed and unobserved. In consequence of the fact, that in the beginning was the word, triggers a dominant conviction, “and the word were with God and the word was God, nothing was created without it”. In addition, in life experience, as a Christian, represents recognition of the work of complete salvation has made significant impact on population in the name of Christ. At this level, Christ is the center on how we should live our life as practicing in giving, Bible study, and worships expressing

According to Bonhoeffer, every true theology starts in prayer and involves Jesus Christ (Godsey, 2015). According to Bonhoeffer, the destroyers of the Christian community are those people who are self-centered, thereby giving priority to their own individual goals as opposed to those of the Christian community. Eventually, such people end up destroying the Christian union regardless of their interests, thoughts, and intentions to uphold earnests, honesty, and sacrifices. According to the theologian, God is against this wishful thinking and dreaming, which is egocentric, and in which case the dreamer ends up being pretentious and proud (Godsey, 2015). This class of people joins the Christian community with their personal demands already set up. Also, they set their own laws, judge other people from the congregation and God on an equal measure. However, in his book, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer warns that people are not the builders of the church but rather Christ is the one who builds it. He continues to maintain that those people who are too much watchful about building the church ends up destroying it instead (Metaxas, 2010). In support of his argument, Bonhoeffer argues that man will build temples to idols unintentionally and without knowing it (reference). In that case, he argues that people should confess that Christ is the sole builder of the church and hence must proclaim this aspect (Bonhoeffer, 1959). Christians must pray to the Christ so that he can continue building the church. He also warns that humans cannot see or judge Christ’s plan as regards the church since the times that the Christians considers periods of destruction may be Christ’s time of great construction and the reverse (reference). The theologian notes that Jesus gives a great comfort to the Church. Jesus requires of the Christians to bear witness, preach, and confess and he alone will be build where it pleases

The following paper presents a brief reconstruction of Nietzsche’s idea of community and its reception by Tönnies, Plessner and Schmitt. Although lacking in conceptual consistency, Nietzsche’s interpretation of community is a critical counterpart not only to its Christian variation but also to the attempts of its politicization. Although Tönnies’ idea of community is influenced by the Birth of Tragedy, he overlooks its key elements presented in Nietzsche’s later works. In his Limits of Society, Plessner provides an alternative to Tönnies’ theory while also criticizing both the Nietzschean and the Marxist interpretation of community. Still, several crucial points of his theory (such as the importance of masks and playfulness in social interaction)

Anita Frederick ML582A Character, Community and Leadership Lohfink, Gerhard. Jesus and Community: The Social Dimension of Christian Faith. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984. Kindle. Gerhard Lohfink, German-born in 1934, was Professor of New Testament at the University of Tübinger. In 1986 he resigned to

Christian is written in as a protagonist, focal point of the story, Christianity, though Christian is not found to be predominantly complicated, his life or journey is and this journey is filled with complications. Christian as a character is more likely to fade away and be replaced with the reader,