On the Spiritual Disciplines of Silence and Solitude

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There is the view which misinterprets silence as a ceremonial gesture, as a mystical desire to get beyond the Word. This is to miss the essential relationship of silence to the Word. Silence is the simple stillness of the individual under the Word of God. Silence is nothing else but waiting for God’s Word and coming from God’s word with a blessing. … Silence before the Word leads to right hearing and thus also right speaking of the Word of God at the right time. … Let none expect from silence anything but a direct encounter with the Word of God, for the sake of which he has entered into silence. 

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

Topic: Silence and Solitude
Series: Spiritual Disciplines of the Christian Life
Church: South Caraway Baptist Church, Jonesboro, AR
Date: February 08, 2023