Life Together: Community

   One of the ways that I think we have distorted Christian community is around sin. While we should certainly want to love one another into places of confession and seeking forgiveness in Christ, Bonhoffer reminds us that a sinning brother is still a brother, yet sometimes we lose that. We make pointing out others sin more about making ourselves feel better, than about nurturing and loving another. We lose sight of the log in our own eye as we point out the speck in another.  And thus we can drive others away from the community they, and we, need the most.