Just a note to remind you all that the next book we'll be reading together is Tom Marshall's Living in the Freedom of the Spirit. It's available through Amazon.com, or some local bookstores may carry it.
We'll be starting to read this next week...see the blog for scheduling of reading, ok?
Blessings on your week!
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I haven't done well in keeping up in this book and just wonder after your comments, Nita, and what is written in the last chapter. When is it necessary to pray and confess with another brother or sister? I guess there are times that I go to the Lord with something in my heart and do not think about confessing to another. Just a question that comes to mind as I read some of this.
ReplyDeleteIn answer to the question by Anonymous, I don't know that I have a real clear answer, but I don't get the impression that Bonhoeffer is implying that we need to confess every little sin and failure to another human. Maybe it's more from my own experience and that of others that my sense about this is that the need to confess to another human is especially relevant as it pertains to sin that is hidden and shameful and therefore continues its destructive work in us...something that we can't seem to shake by confessing only to God.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, I think there's a place for continuing vulnerability with a person or persons close to us by which we keep an open and tender heart.