Restoration of the Church – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the light of the rise of Christian Nationalism some timely advise for the Church of today and for all who call themselves Christians.

On January 14, 1935, (Dietrich) Bonhoeffer wrote his brother Karl-Friedrich,

I think I am right in saying that I would only achieve true inner clarity and honesty by really starting to take the Sermon on the Mount seriously. Here alone lies the force that can blow all this idiocy sky-high—like fireworks, leaving only a few burnt-out shells behind. The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the Sermon on the Mount.

From Paul Dekar’s book, Thomas Merton: God’s Messenger on the Road towards a New World (p. 100)