Bruderhof Quotes

“No one person or group of people could have brought
about the first church community. No heights of oratory,
no burning enthusiasm, could have awakened for Christ the
thousands who were moved at the time, or produced the
united life of the early church. The friends of Jesus knew this
very well. Had not the risen one himself commanded them
to wait in Jerusalem for the fulfillment of the great promise?
(Luke 24:49) John had baptized in water all those who
listened to him. But the first church was to be submerged in
and filled with the holy wind of Christ’s spirit. (Acts 2:1–2)”
― Eberhard Arnold, God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom