Fellowship

I've been digging into the topic of Fellowship lately, and it's reminded me how much I like Bonhoeffer's "Life Together" book. Here's an interesting sermon that discusses parts of that book.

Good friends, the Christian community, it turns out, is not about construction our own corner of heaven or our personal image of the promised land over here in Medford. It’s not about coming up with the best ideas and then being as mad as a hatter when things don’t turn out my way. Bonhoeffer knows, and so do we, that having these ideals of a community that we want to construct in our own image, as well-meaning as that image may be, is all about us and not much about God. And so we should be happy when God frustrates our attempts at perfection in our image. We should glad when God lets the community disappoint our best intentions. We should be glad because then we can start about the business of becoming a real Christian community, not some skin-deep version of one.