Excluding the “useless” people…

I am (finally!) reading slowly through Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together.

Of course, just about every paragraph contains something to stop and ponder over. But tonight I wanted to share just one brief excerpt with the hope that it will encourage you to read this great book too:

“Self-centeredness always insinuates itself in any process of intellectual or spiritual selectivity, destroying the spiritual power of the community and robbing the community of its effectiveness for the church … The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from everyday Christian life in community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; for in the poor sister or brother, Christ is knocking at the door. We must, therefore, be very careful on this point.”

(Convicting, eh?!)

May God give us grace to turn away from self-centeredness and exclusivity!

G’nite and God bless–

Yours,
Tara B.