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Continuing on in the Ragamuffin Gospel,

David Jennings · January 6, 2006 · 2 Comments

I came across this passage:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer noted, “He who is alone with his sins is utterly
alone. It may be that Christians, not withstanding corporate worship,
common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left
to their loneliness. The final breakthrough to
fellowship does not
occur
because, though they have fellowship with one another as
believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the
undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a
sinner
. So everyone must conceal his sin from himself and from their
fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably
horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the
righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and
hypocrisy
. The fact is that we are sinners!

As I sat there at lunch contemplating that thought, I knew that it was true. More later.

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  1. Sharon says

    January 9, 2006 at 7:08 am

    Bigjolly…pastor of Fellowship church…me thinks the Father is speaking!

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  2. Mark Jumper says

    January 13, 2006 at 1:29 pm

    David,

    ….wow. This is truly insightful. I’ve been praying with my prayer partner, Jimbo, about our church congregation (KFBC) and our inability to drop “our defense mechanisms” and truly worship “in Spirit and Truth”. The words of Bonhoeffer point out the necessary prerequisite – confession of our sins and not trying to hide the fact that we are sinners.

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