Moreover, it drew no line between natural and Christian existence. Such a Christianity had to understand the cross as one's daily misfortune, as the predicament and anxiety of our daily life. Here it has been forgotten that the cross also means being rejected, that the cross includes the shame of suffering.
Being shunned, despised, and deserted by people, as in the psalmists unending lament, is an essential feature of the suffering of the cross, which cannot be comprehended by a Christianity that is unable to differentiate between a citizen's ordinary existence and a Christian existence.
The cross is suffering with Christ.
Discipleship and the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
(As translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss, 2001).
Discipleship and the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
(As translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss, 2001).
