Jesus did not come to give us answers. He came to give us himself. And Bonhoeffer says that that’s what it means to live in the penultimate as a Christian, to live in it the way Jesus did. It means that we are to join others in their suffering, to try and understand what other people have to put up with in their lives.
In this video, J. Ellsworth Kalas shares from his experience what it was like being a preacher in the 1950s and how that’s different from the challenges preachers face today. He also discusses the preacher’s temptation to seek after better methods rather than in helping to form better saints of God.
July 18, 2015 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus
