Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Eric MetaxasTags: christianity religion
Bonhoeffer himself knew that in all of it, he was being utterly obedient to God. For him, that was the cantus firmus that made the dizzying complexities of it all perfectly coherent.
Eric MetaxasSo what stands in place of the Christian message? An ethical and social idealism borne by a faith in progress that - who knows how - claims the right to call itself "Christian." And in the place of the church as the congregation of believers in Christ there stands the church as a social corporation." ~Bonhoeffer
Eric MetaxasThe Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.
Eric MetaxasThey (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren’t much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.
Eric MetaxasTags: arrogance secularism
(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.
Eric MetaxasTags: continuity spiritual-development discipleship maturation sovereignty-of-god
A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.
Eric MetaxasTags: persecution church-state-separation
He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.
Eric MetaxasIt was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
Eric MetaxasTags: prayer spiritual-warfare
Describing Bonhoeffer's demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with "with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom.
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