Kester writes in its book “The Complex Christian” in a general manner that a church, which lost its reliability and its influence in the world must begin completely from the front, in order to be able to notice their order again. In addition it must deliver all their privileges and power and small and unnoticed in complete Abhängikeit by their “host culture” from the language the world and their environment loves to learn. When I am gestolpert over these lines, a erstaumliche parallel was noticeable to me to Bonhoeffers church theories in the sight of the co-operation of the church with the ruling powers of the national socialism and their failure opposite the Jews. Bonhoeffer writes:
“„The church is church only if it is there for others. In order to make a beginning, she must give all property to the distressed one. The ministers must live exclusively of the freiwilligen gifts of the municipalities, exercise possibly a lay occupation. It must participate in the lay tasks of the human community life, not dominant, but helping and serving. She must say humans of all occupations, what a life with Christ is, which it is called „for others to to it-be “. Our church the Lastern of the Hybris, which Anbetung Kraft must advance toward and the envy and the illusionism as the roots of all evil, becomes special. It will not be allowed to underestimate the meaning of the human „model “(...); not by terms but through „model “gets the word reproduction and Kraft. “”
It tunes me thoughtfully that for over 60 years humans have the same message for the municipality and she is nevertheless only heavily heard. The situation of the body can become still more threatening Christi in our part of the world nevertheless hardly. What holds us off to admit our failure to leave and begin old persons behind us again? Why do we clasp ourselves at privileges, which count only in our Ghettos something and by our environment are smiled at? Who made us proud and on which?
