Pine Grove Christian Fellowship

A few weeks ago someone (If I remember correctly it was Mike Blanco) gave me a printed copy of one of Chuck Colson's "BreakPoint" commentaries. It was about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his important book The Cost of Discipleship. Bonhoeffer paid the cost dearly. He was executed in a Nazi prison camp just days before the Allies liberated Germany.

From Colson's pen (April 14, 2009)...

     In this month's Great Books series, Dr. Ken Boa turns his attention to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship. The book's greatness lies not only in the truths expressed, but also in the fact that the author lived those truths in his own life so powerfully.

     In 1939, just two years after Bonhoeffer wrote The Cost of Discipleship, American friends arranged his passage from Germany to the United States. While others busily planned a speaking tour for Bonhoeffer, he grew increasingly unsettled.

     He wrote a letter to Reinhold Neibuhr who had sponsored his trip, explaining that leaving Germany had been a mistake. He knew that Christians in Germany would have to choose between desiring their nation's defeat to preserve Christian civilization or desiring their nation's victory and thereby destroying their civilization. "I know which of these alternatives I must choose," wrote Bonhoeffer, "but I cannot make that choice in security." (READ MORE...)