Responsibility is a pillar of Max Scheler's ethical personalism, visible in all dimensions of his rich thought: anthropological, sociological, ethical, and philosophico-religious. It was also an important inspiration for Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as the author of Sanctorum Communio confessed. Responsibility and co-responsibility become the pathos of the process of reality’s becoming, with human participation, in the face of the absent Christ or the powerless god. In this essay, I try to compare the concepts of Scheler's “collective person” (Gesamtperson) and Bonhoeffer's “congregation”. For the author of Formalism in the Ethis and material Value Ethics, the collective person becomes a kind of proof of the existence of God; for the author of Sanctorum Communio, in turn, the congregation becomes Christ. The ethics of the model person, analyzed thoroughly by Scheler as the process of self-identification on the three levels of ens amans, volens and cogitans, seem to be correlated with the very process of being in the stead of Christ, i.e. substitution. But even with the many fundamental points of contact between these concepts, we need to note the criticism that Bonhoeffer directed at Scheler and the core of Scheler's emotional analysis, i.e., the act of love itself.