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Christian pattern no longer takes its orientation of light is like fire lit inside and all the answers
simply from what is forbidden, feeling content in the face of this are visible, everything beco-
if what is forbidden can be avoided: rather, it mes crystal clear…”
pursues the question of what it means to be re-
sponsible. What is of service to my neighbour? References
What expectations does God have regarding my Martin Luther, Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe (“Wei-
actions? (after D. Bonhoeffer). These questions mar Edition”), Weimar,
have to be asked and answered within the fra- 1883–2009, vol.1 , p. 372
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Widerstand und Ergebung, Diet-
mework of the relationship with God. rich-Bonhoeffer-Werke (DBW),
If Christian counseling succeeds in accompa- 1998/2011, vol.6, p.309. Gütersloher Verlagshaus
nying the client in this context of relationship,
the encounter with God can lead to a new ori-
entation of his conscience and he can step out in
a greater freedom in which it is not rigid norms
that hold sway, but where the light of God is
showing the path. In the present case study, the
client describes this in these words: “The state

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