Life Together

Summer in the City, our special preaching series shared by all of our pastors. This year’s focus is Life Together. This is the title of Dietrich Bonheoffer’s famous book which was printed in 1939 while he was teaching at an illegal seminary in Nazi Germany. Bonheoffer understood the need for the church to be the church because of the Nazi threat. The surrounding threat amplified the truth that we need each other. Our situation today may be different than what Bonheoffer faced in 1939, but we too are surrounded by a culture antagonistic to Christ and the Gospel. Our need for each other is real. The old maxim “No man is an island” is certainly true of the Christian life. We need the support of each other. The Apostles underscore this theme in almost every New Testament letter by using the phrase “one another.” Jesus did too when he said, “Love one another.” That’s what Life Together is all about, a study of the various “one another” exhortations that the apostles give us for our life together as a local church.