This book (available for free as online pdf in that link, you're welcome) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer* is probably among the most concise, helpful, practical, gracious, context-flexible and biblically-rooted explorations of Christian community I have ever read. In five short readable chapters exploring the nature of community, the typical or ideal day when with others or alone, ministry, and confession and communion, Boffers offers us a rich and life-affirming gospel tapestry of where our selves and relations may go wrong, and how we can try to help them go right by being truly grounded in Christ - individually and togetherly. A must-read for folks in church leadership & membership alike.
* An incredibly inspiring man in 20th-century Christianity who was martyred by the Nazis for opposing their - being - well, Nazis, I guess. Also the person alongside whose name I was first ever introduced to the term theologian, because Tim Chester's cat was named after him and obviously this demanded an explanation, because "Boffy" is a weird name, and even weirder when you're told what it's short for.
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