Life Together

The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's Summary

After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness in the hearts of Christians around the world. His became a prized testimony to Christian faith and courage, read by thousands.

Now, in Life Together, we have Pastor Bonhoeffer's experience of Christian community. This story of a unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years reads like one of Paul's letters. It gives practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups.

The role of personal prayer, worship in common, everyday work, and Christian service is treated in simple, almost biblical, words. Life Together is bread for all who are hungry for the real life of Christian fellowship.

©1978 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (P)2009 christianaudio.com

Fantástico!!

Before this review, I listened to it twice and will listen again next week. This book is packed with so much Truth and Love. I found myself convicted on a few pages. Oh if the Church could lives as described in these pages, the souls we could when for the Kingdom of God. (John 13:34-35)

More than we practice

What made the experience of listening to Life Together the most enjoyable?

Bonhoeffer demonstrates for me how our life together as "fellowship" and "church" is so different than the richness of what it could and can be.

Any additional comments?

Some of the things about "Life Together" are particular to communal life, but the principles have a much broader application.

Please read this book.

SERIOUSLY, PLEAAAAASE READ THIS BOOK. I HAVE NEVER READ A BOOK THAT SO ACCURATELY DESCRIBES CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.

Life Together creates a desire for community

Today many congregations have trouble worshipping together for an hour. In Life Together Bonhoeffer awakens a desire for Christian community beyond the Lord's day and a few meetings during the week. Life Together shares a desire for a full Life Together in Christ.

A Needed Read

I needed this renewal of faith and practice.
A well paced and performed production.

Hardly A Setence not Helpful or Convicting

Bonhoeffer addresses many issues that are thoroughly Biblical yet missing in my own life and I imagine in the life other Christians as well. For example, his perceptive insights on brotherly confession were not only insightful on many levels but thoroughly pratical. I highly commend this short listen to any Christian.

Some great thoughts from an inspiring Christian

Some interesting and simple thoughts by Bonhoeffer. There were some good nuggets in this short book about alien righteousness, the Psalms and how in them we find the praying Christ, and meditation. This work has really encouraged me to start again a morning devotional/time set a part for reading the word, singing, and prayer. He also had some interesting thoughts on singing and the idea of unity singing as a congregation. I fully agreed with him on the idea that our singing can turn into a work of self glorifying (my term) of sorts and that if we simply sing in unity it can be a form of corporate prayer.

I'll have to read this one again, maybe next year, to get more out of it as simple as it was. There were also some very good ideas for evening devotionals as a family.

Deep and sound insights

I love hearing how these older Christians thought. They seem to have had a strong connection with the reality of the gospel of Christ

A wealth of wisdom.

Bonhoeffer speaks to the Christian with a wealth of wisdom that can only come from walking with the Lord in His Word and through His Spirit.

Solid book on Living together as Christians.

Great narration, good solid biblical advice for trying times. Will motivate you to become a better Christian.

I need the text version! (And that’s my highest compliment!)

This short book (just over three hours, about one per chapter) was so good, I was considering buying the text before the end of the first chapter so I could absorb it more slowly. There’s so much meat in here from Bonhoeffer. My favourite theologians are those who also pastor and this book is an example of why: he offers truth in ways that take fully into account the realities of church life.

If you’re a Christian struggling with church, whether from negative experiences or just uncertainty about how you fit in, this book offers practical steps you can take as well as a solid app theological grounding for those practices.

I gave it a four for the reading because it was really quite good, and a three for story because, no lie, it’s not exactly unputdownable, but I’m still giving it a solid overall five stars because if you’re a Christian today this book is absolutely relevant and relatable. It’s dense, with each line giving plenty of food for thought, yet it’s easy to follow and the translation is very lucid.

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

I am a late comer to Dietrich Bonhoeffer writing /listening on Audible. Well worth buying.

still relevant, but very male centred language.

Great content, narration a bit flat but then it isn't an epic so that's probably appropriate. content relevant but phrasing to all male establishment a bit annoying 80 years later.