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

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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.

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The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on...more

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Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

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The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes a "religious soc...more

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Reproof is unavoidable. God’s Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of discipline in the congregation begins in the smalles...more

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Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship...more

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And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, any attack even on the least of men is an attack on ...more

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True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the ...more

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the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.