Bonhoeffer on Church

In his book, Ethics, Bonhoeffer talks a bit about church. I haven't read it, but found this on another blog and thought it was a super.

‘The space of the church is not there in order to fight with the world for a piece of its territory, but precisely to testify to the world that it is still the world, namely, the world that is loved and reconciled by God.’

‘Where that witness [to the world] has become silent it is a sign of inner decay in the church-community, just as failure to bear fruit is a sign that a tree is dying.’

‘The church-community is separated from the world only by this: it believes in the reality of being accepted by God—a reality that belongs to the whole world—and in affirming this as valid for itself it witnesses that it is valid for the entire world. The body of Jesus Christ, especially as it is presented to us on the cross, makes visible to faith both the world in its sin and in its being loved by God, and the church-community as the company of those who recognize their sin and gratefully submit to the love of God.’