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Katharina von Bora: 20 December 1552
Katherina Von Bora
How do you work with people? You can learn from some heroes in the Bible and history. Noah shows you to Keep Awake to your own feelings. John the Baptizer teaches to Repent from behaviors that do not bear fruit. Katharina von Bora, a woman leader of the reformation, and wife of Martin Luther calls you to Be Patient. One of the greatest challenges in working with people is inappropriate behavior. People who cross personal boundaries are emotionally immature. God confronts bad behavior and helps people to grow and mature. So be patient.
Inappropriate Behavior
Inappropriate behavior can sabotage businesses, schools, governments, and churches. There is no shortage of news stories and examples from history of how people behaving badly destroy their life and people around them. It is particularly shameful when this happens in church because the church should be a leader of Godly behavior.
In the 1500’s inappropriate behavior was widespread in the church. Many priests didn’t take their vows of celibacy seriously at all. Martin Luther was a country priest not unlike John the Baptizer. When Luther went to the “Perpetual City” of Rome he was shocked to see priests openly having mistresses. Another troubling reality was the corruption of monasteries.
In 1504 Katharina von Bora was sent by her family at the age of five years old to a monastery to grow up and live out the rest of her days. Monasteries and monastics have been powerful and wonderful centers of learning and action when people freely choose to serve God in this way. But the practice of enlisting five year old children was abusive.
Emotional Immaturity
People who act inappropriately and cross personal boundaries are emotionally immature. They have not been raised or taught how to have deep and mutually respectful relationships. Instead many people have an unrealistic image of what an ideal life is supposed to look like.
When Katharina von Bora was a young adult she began to question the monastic life she had been pushed into. She was told that monastics were better than ordinary people because they devoted their life to God. They would be more likely to get into heaven because they didn’t waste their time in Earthly tasks like marriage, family, and business. Then Katharina heard about the teachings of Martin Luther. He argued that every person could serve God in their Earthly vocation: teachers, farmers, merchants, and families doing what they do with faith.
Katharina von Bora wrote to Luther with a scandalous idea. She and a group of other young nuns wanted to escape the convent, and pa
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By Rev. Wesley MenkeKatharina von Bora: 20 December 1552
Katherina Von Bora
How do you work with people? You can learn from some heroes in the Bible and history. Noah shows you to Keep Awake to your own feelings. John the Baptizer teaches to Repent from behaviors that do not bear fruit. Katharina von Bora, a woman leader of the reformation, and wife of Martin Luther calls you to Be Patient. One of the greatest challenges in working with people is inappropriate behavior. People who cross personal boundaries are emotionally immature. God confronts bad behavior and helps people to grow and mature. So be patient.
Inappropriate Behavior
Inappropriate behavior can sabotage businesses, schools, governments, and churches. There is no shortage of news stories and examples from history of how people behaving badly destroy their life and people around them. It is particularly shameful when this happens in church because the church should be a leader of Godly behavior.
In the 1500’s inappropriate behavior was widespread in the church. Many priests didn’t take their vows of celibacy seriously at all. Martin Luther was a country priest not unlike John the Baptizer. When Luther went to the “Perpetual City” of Rome he was shocked to see priests openly having mistresses. Another troubling reality was the corruption of monasteries.
In 1504 Katharina von Bora was sent by her family at the age of five years old to a monastery to grow up and live out the rest of her days. Monasteries and monastics have been powerful and wonderful centers of learning and action when people freely choose to serve God in this way. But the practice of enlisting five year old children was abusive.
Emotional Immaturity
People who act inappropriately and cross personal boundaries are emotionally immature. They have not been raised or taught how to have deep and mutually respectful relationships. Instead many people have an unrealistic image of what an ideal life is supposed to look like.
When Katharina von Bora was a young adult she began to question the monastic life she had been pushed into. She was told that monastics were better than ordinary people because they devoted their life to God. They would be more likely to get into heaven because they didn’t waste their time in Earthly tasks like marriage, family, and business. Then Katharina heard about the teachings of Martin Luther. He argued that every person could serve God in their Earthly vocation: teachers, farmers, merchants, and families doing what they do with faith.
Katharina von Bora wrote to Luther with a scandalous idea. She and a group of other young nuns wanted to escape the convent, and pa