40 Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Day 28
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The other service one should perform for another person in a Christian community is active helpfulness. To begin with, we have in mind simple assistance in minor, external matters.
The other service one should perform for another person in a Christian community is active helpfulness. To begin with, we have in mind simple assistance in minor, external matters.
You complain that you cannot believe? No one should be surprised that they cannot come to believe so long as, in deliberate disobedience, they flee or reject some aspect of Jesus' commandment.
This does not refer to God's righteousness, but to suffering for the sake of a righteous cause, suffering because of the righteous judgment and action of Jesus' disciples. In judgment and action those who follow Jesus will be different from the world in renouncing their property, happiness, rights, righteousness, honor, and violence. They will be offensive to the world.
Hear the God's Word for you in Romans 1:19-20 "For since the creation of the
world God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made..."
Read more: Enjoy God's Purposes In Creation Romans 1:19-20 by Sylvia Gunter
Hear God's Word to you in Psalm 25:14. "The LORD confides in those who fear
him; he makes his covenant known to them." And in Genesis 3:8. "Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day."
Read more: Intimacy With God - Psalm 25:14; Genesis 3:18 by Sylvia Gunter
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