"Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community e...

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~












Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrarin...
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