Interesting Exerpt (Concerning the Church)

"It is their baptism into the Body of Christ which assures all Christians of their full share in the life of Christ and the Church...To allow a baptized brother to take part in the worship of the Church, but to refuse to have anything to do with him in everyday life, is to subject him to abuse and contempt. If we do that, we are guilty of the very Body of Christ. And if we grant the baptized brother the rights to the gifts of salvation but refuse him the gifts necessary to earthly life or knowingly leave him in material need and distress, we are holding up the gifts of salvation to ridicule and behaving as liars...When a man is baptized into the Body of Christ not only his personal status as regards salvation changed, but also his relationship of daily life"-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Cost of Discipleship. Touchstone, 1995.