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The Cost of Discipleship
I have been waiting for the new website to return to writing weekly Monday Musings. There is no apparent link but in my mind I somehow made a connection. I am glad to return to the discipline of writing again.
The last few days in February several of us gathered with Rev. Frederick Trost at White Memorial Camp. We had a great time of fellowship and an opportunity to meet and greet new friends and old. There was an almost equal balance of men and women and of people from Oklahoma and Kansas. I left thinking of Psalm 133 which begins in this way, "How good and pleasing it is when the people of faith dwell together in harmony."
Fred Trost was my conference minister for many years when I was serving congregations in the Wisconsin Conference. He has been and remains one of my mentors and teachers. It was, therefore, a special joy for me to have this time with a good friend. Fred has a habit of listening to the voices of the ancestors and inviting them into conversation with us. One of the ancestors with whom he visits with some frequency is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. After our retreat, I picked up my old copy of The Cost of Discipleship (New York: Macmillan Paperbacks Edition, 1963)....
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