The Porterbrook Network

I love idealists. The gospel calls us to be holy, gospel-centred, loving, missional people and to be holy, gospel-centred, loving, missional communities. Given the choice, I’ll always take an idealist over a pragmatist. And the missional world is full of them. But ideals can be misused. People can use ideals as a means to criticize other people. They become a stick to beat people ...Continue

I’m posting a few quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together (available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk) which I recently reviewed on my blog (here). Today some quotes on the danger of loving the dream of community, but not real people – a danger to which people in the missional movement are perhaps especially prone. He who has ears to hear ...Continue