SGTS - Week 5, Day 3

"The serious Christian, set down for the first time in a Christian community, is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it. But God’s grace speedily shatters such dreams. Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.
"Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate."
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together.

What was your idea of Christian community in the past? How did God shatter those dreams? How can you participate in God’s reality?