"According to the witness of the New Testament, the church is the city on the hill. Today it has to venture to live 'outside' in its own life in simple obedience. It has to discover grace in leaving everything, to receive it back again a hundred-fold here. Inner-worldliness is a comfort, but not a principle or a program. The community must suffer life Christ, without wonderment."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Lecture - "The Interpretation of the New Testament."
April 26, 1935.
These words are just as true, necessary, and important today as they were then.
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