Life Together: A Transformative Guide to Building Authentic Christian Community
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(6 sessions) Monday, September 14, 21, 28; October 5, 12, 19 at 6:30 pm
Leader: Jennifer Schlegel | Location: St. John’s Conference Room
Life Together Small Group
Famed Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together is a bold and daring look at Christian life, and what cross-centered living can look like for all believers. Renowned for his thoughts on Christianity’s role in the secular world, Bonhoeffer, also the author of bestselling The Cost of Discipleship, allows readers to deepen their faith and fellowship through actionable steps towards building lasting and meaningful communities. In Life Together, Bonhoeffer, famous for his involvement in a plot to overthrow Adolph Hitler, recounts his unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years in Germany. Through this one-of-a-kind lived experience, he compassionately yet challengingly defines what living in a community is all about, and the divine importance of it. Practical yet profound, this book remains the most influential and modern book on the nature and spirit of authentic Christian community. It reveals the communal Christian spirit that inspired Bonhoeffer and his Christian associates to conspire to assassinate Hitler as an act of true Christian love and courage. Life Together is bread for all who are hungry for the real life of Christian fellowship. Whether you’re 35 or 85, planning ahead is one of the greatest gifts you can give. Let this planner be your final high-five — and the thing your family will thank you for most. “Peace of mind isn’t morbid — it’s love in action.”
