Bonhoeffer: to whom confess?

Tuesday, April 9, 2024
    Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945
Meditation:
    Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
    —1 John 3:4 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Anybody who lives beneath the Cross and who has discerned in the Cross of Jesus the utter wickedness of all men and of his own heart will find there is no sin that can ever be alien to him. Anybody who has once been horrified by the dreadfulness of his own sin that nailed Jesus to the Cross will no longer be horrified by even the rankest sins of a brother.
    ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Life Together [1954], tr. Daniel W. Bloesch & James H. Burtness, Fortress Press, 2004, p. 118 (see the book)
    See also 1 John 3:4; Ps. 25:11; Matt. 15:17-20; Luke 6:45; John 8:34; Rom. 7:13,22-24; Eph. 2:1-2; Heb. 12:1; Jas. 1:13-15; Jude 1:22-23
Quiet time reflection:
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