tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post918194710494544762..comments2024-02-19T05:09:00.099-06:00Comments on Lutheran Confessions: Living and Managing Without Reference to GodClint Schneklothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00707900080657719369noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-22084288007885422182016-12-27T13:46:56.852-06:002016-12-27T13:46:56.852-06:00“During the last year or so I’ve come to know and ...“During the last year or so I’ve come to know and understand more and more the profound this-worldliness of Christianity. The Christian is not ahomo religiosus, but simply a man, as Jesus was a man…I’m still discovering right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. One must completely abandon any attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called priestly type!) a righteous man or an unrighteous one, a sick man or a healthy one. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life’s duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world—watching with Christ in Gethsemane. That, I think, is faith; that is metanoia; and that is how one becomes a man and a Christian.” -<br />Dietrich Bonhoeffer<br /><br />http://spectrummagazine.org/article/2016/09/30/church-crisis-religionless-christianity-dietrich-bonhoefferAl Owskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07701248578165032890noreply@blogger.com