A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. "Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand.” ... The bushel may be the fear of men, or perhaps deliberate conformity to the world for some ulterior motive. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him. "Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the stand.” ... The bushel may be the fear of men, or perhaps deliberate conformity to the world for some ulterior motive.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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