Sin and Community

The breakthrough to community [Gemeinschaft] begins in confession. Sin wants to be alone with humans. It causes them to withdraw from community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive power sin will have over him, and, again, the deeper the entanglement the more hopeless the solitude. Sin wishes to remain unrecognized. It shies away from the light. In the darkness of the unspoken, it complete poisons a person’s being.

Dietrich Bonhoffer