For
the eleventh day of Christmas, more Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
And in the Incarnation the whole human race
recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, any attack even on the
least [person] is an attack on Christ, who took [the human form], and in his own
Person restored the image of God in all that bears a human form. Through
fellowship and communion with the incarnate Lord, we recover our true humanity,
and at the same time we are delivered from that individualism which is the
consequence of sin, and retrieve our solidarity with the whole human race. By
being partakers of Christ incarnate, we are partakers in the whole humanity
which he bore. We now know that we have been taken up and borne in the humanity
of Jesus, and therefore that new nature we now enjoy means that we too must
bear the sins and sorrows of others. The incarnate Lord makes his followers the
brothers and sisters of all humankind.
(The Cost of Discipleship, Chapter 32)
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the
service of God cannot be divorced from the service of [humanity].
(The Cost of Discipleship, Chapter 32)
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