Come as you are
Wanted to share another quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together (it'll be on the cover of this Sunday's Order of Worship). I hope we are and can continue to be the kind of community that believes this together:Those who remain alone with their evil are left utterly alone. It is possible that Christians may remain lonely in spite of daily worship together, prayer together, and all their community through service-that the final breakthrough to community does not occur precisely because they enjoy community with one another as pious believers, but not with one another as those lacking piety, as sinners....However, the grace of the gospel, which is so hard for the pious to comprehend, confronts us with the truth. It says to us, you are a sinner, a great, unholy sinner. Now come, as the sinner that you are, to your God who loves you. For God wants you as you are, not desiring anything from you-a sacrifice, a good deed-but rather desiring you alone.