Friday, October 2, 2009

Intercession

Just wanted to drop an awesome quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer on you guys. It's in his book called "Life Together" Check it:
"A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that until now may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner. This is a happy discovery for the Christian who begins to pray for others. There is no dislike, no personal tension, no estrangement that cannot be overcome by intercession as far as our side of it is concerned. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the fellowship must enter every day. The struggle we undergo with our brother in intercession may be a hard one, but that struggle has the promise that it will gain it's goal."

I'm not going to even try and explain this to you. Just read it, digest it, then live it.
peace,
matt

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you I so needed this!!

Love,
Mom

Matthew Bourque said...

aww that's cute