"Here, where those whom I don’t like are sitting next to me among the faithful, this is precisely where the church is."

Bonhoeffer on the political implications of Christian Freedom

“The only criterion for membership in the Body of Christ is the Word of God and faith.”

In his commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Karl Barth asks:

Does the behavior of the OTHER lie so far outside the freedom of God that the one who knows he’s free in Christ should exclude the OTHER fro…