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40 Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer -Day 30

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bonhoeffer 3 A Christian community either lives by the intercessory prayers of its members for one another, or the community will be destroyed. I can no longer condemn or hate other Christians for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble they cause me.

40 Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Day 23

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bonhoeffer 3 There is probably no Christian to whom God has not given the uplifting and blissful experience of genuine Christian community at least once in her or his life. But in this world such experiences remain nothing but a gracious extra beyond the daily bread of Christian community life.

INHERITANCE AND INVENTION: FLANNERY O’CONNOR’S PRAYER JOURNAL BY CASEY N. CEP

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flannery-oconnor-prayer-journal-580 How should one pray? Not even the Psalmists or the disciples knew the answer. The Psalms are filled with pleas for God to place words on the tongues of believers; the disciples were even so bold as to ask Christ to teach them how to pray. The struggle to listen, but also to speak to God, animates the scriptures.

40 Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer -Day 16

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bonhoeffer 3 "You are the salt"․not "You should be the salt"! The disciples are given no choice whether they want to be salt or not. No appeal is made to them to become the salt of the earth. Rather they just are salt whether they want to be or not, by the power of the call which has reached them.