Life Together
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Community life in the underground seminary at Finkenwalde: the day together, the day alone, ministry (holding one's tongue, meekness, listening, bearing), confession. Short and the best book on Christian community ever written.
Read it if…
you live or work in a community and want its disciplines.
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you want individual spirituality.
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Three things you will actually use
- He who loves his dream of community destroys community.
- Let him who cannot be alone beware of community.
- The first service is listening.
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Read the chapter on ministry.
Our verdict
The best book on community.
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