{"id":746,"date":"2007-12-01T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/bonhoffer_on_co.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:31","slug":"bonhoffer_on_co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/bonhoffer_on_co.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Bonhoffer on Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/rouses.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/i-will-build-my-church.html\">Alan&#8217;s great post<\/a> on building the church comes this quote from Dietrich Bonnhoffer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Love community, and you will kill it. Love your brother, and you will build it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant.  How many times do we try to produce the fruit of the kingdom rather than simply seeking it and living it and letting it produce it&#8217;s own fruit?   We look at all the good things that God promised we would have or told us we should have, and think that we are responsible for achieving them.  No, we are responsible to simply obey Jesus.  If we do that, the fruit will come.<br \/>\nLove God, love each other and watch God produce the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alan&#8217;s great post on building the church comes this quote from Dietrich Bonnhoffer: Love community, and you will kill it. Love your brother, and you will build it. 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