Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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STUFF I PICK UP FROM MY WALK WITH OUR LORD
About Me
- Jim Lauria
- I live in South Central Tennessee, United States
- 60 something pastor of a Presbyterian Church. I am Bonhoefferian in my theology. Also a seller of used books on eBay.
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
My mentor of sorts
God's Image
"God does not want me to model others into the image that seems good to me, that is, into my own image. Instead, in their freedom from me God made other people in God's own image.
I can never know in advance how God's image should appear in others. That image always takes on a completely new and unique form whose origin is found solely in God's free and sovereign act of creation. To me that form may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every person in the image of God's Son, the Crucified, and this image, likewise, certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it.
Strong and weak, wise or foolish, talented or untalented, pious or less pious, the complete diversity of individuals in the community is no longer a pretext for self-justification. Rather this diversity is a reason for rejoicing in one another and serving one another."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -from Life Together p.95
Bonhoeffer
Hung by the Nazis in April 1945
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"There is a big difference between judging someone's doctrine as faulty,
and persecuting the faithful for a lack of perfection." Quincy
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