the law brother connection.

It was kind of hard for me to see what the connection between the topics and it really took some thought. After thinking about it for awhile, I guess it occurred to me that when you think about the 10 commandments, the first 4 laws deal with our relationship with God; the next 6 laws deal with our relationship with other people.

That helped me to make the connection in that Bonhoeffer reminds us that Jesus came as the fulfillment of the law - that the law was originally designed as guidelines for human beings to have fellowship with God, and fellowship with each other. Even though it's difficult for we as fallible human beings to keep the law, it doesn't mean that it's unimportant or that we should ignore it. Only with the help of Christ can we obey the law and have true fellowship with our "brothers".