Written by Dietrich Bonhoffer (1906-1945), a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and Nazi dissident., This is an excerpt from his book “Life Together.”
Confess your faults to one another. He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship and service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final breakthrough to fellowship does not occur because, although they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everyone must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is discovered among the righteous.
So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips.” [Isaiah 6:5]
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