Bonhoeffer titles chapter 4 as “Ministry”. He presents the different types of ministries including holding one’s tongue, meekness, listening, helpfulness, bearing, proclaiming, and authority. He goes into detail for each ministry as he wants people to learn how to give and take in a community setting. Before reading this chapter…

In chapter three titled “The Day Alone” defends his position on how being alone plays a crucial role in the spiritual formation in the lives of the believers. Bonhoeffer states, “The time of meditation does not let us down into the void and abyss of loneliness; it lets us be…

In chapter 2 titled “The Day with Others”, Bonhoeffer describes the three main worship services that are to happen in a Christian community every day. These include morning, midday and evening services. He goes into detail of what is to occur during each worship service. At the beginning of chapter…

Bonhoeffer starts his book off by writing about the importance of being in a community. He draws on various passages from the Bible to explain how the community is supposed to live together. It is a little bit of weird timing to be reading this chapter that talks about the…

The last chapter in the book is “The Church”. In the last chapter of his book, he takes a final look at the differences between Christianity and Liberalism. Liberalism is founded on the basis that men everywhere are brothers. While Christians believe that the more intimate relationship between man to…

Machen addresses another key issue between liberalism and Christianity in Chapter 6 titled “Salvation”. Similar to one of my previous blog posts, Machen maintains the idea that liberalism only sees Jesus as merely an example of what self-sacrifice is supposed to look like. I have to be honest, if Jesus…

Chapter 5, titled “Christ”, takes a look at Jesus and the views that both liberalism and Christianity hold. Those views are sharply opposing one another. One major difference between liberalism and Christianity is that the liberalists believe that there was “a moral upon Jesus’ character” (Machen 75). To add onto…

In chapter four titled “The Bible”, Machen speaks about the means in which Christianity and modern liberalism receive the Bible. This is something that I haven’t really thought about before in terms of modern liberalism and what they would believe. Machen makes the point that modern liberalism says that the…

Inchapter 3, Machen is talking about the idea of God and Man. He describes how some liberals don’t understand the concept of God the Father. He explains that liberals tend to think that God is the universal god of all faiths and religions. Machen exclaims, “It is very strange how…