Bonhoeffer believed in the importance of Christian community and of the priority of learning how to love one another. But he also stressed that we do not love community per se or treat community as our highest value. For indeed, the danger is that we would ask the Christian community to be to us what only Christ can be to us.12 Put another way, our love for God is always primary. And our love for others is but an expression of our love for God. We love others in Christ.
