Halloween Masks

Tomorrow is Halloween, when many of us will be putting on masks for trick-or-treating or a costume party or just for the fun of it. When we're all done, we'll take off our masks, and people will see us for who we really are... won't they?

Just because Halloween ends doesn't mean people take off their masks. Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in Life Together: He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, [in spite of their] corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may [be the loneliest people of all]. The final breakthrough to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everyone must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. [1]

Did Jesus die on the cross so we could wear masks even when it's not Halloween? Join us Sunday as we explore the possibilities.

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[1] Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1954), 110. I've taken the liberty to re-word a phrase or two to make this more understandable while, I believe, remaining true to Bonhoeffer's original thought.