diaspora common

“According to God’s will Christendom is a scattered people. . . God’s people remain scattered, held together solely in Jesus Christ, having become one in the fact that, dispersed among unbelievers, they remember Him in the far countries.” “But they remain alone in far countries, a scattered seed according to God’s will. Yet what is denied them as an actual experience they seize upon more fervently in faith.” “It is by the grace of God that a congregation is permitted to gather . . . They know that visible fellowship is a blessing.”
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
in Life Together