“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on God’s Existence
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“A God who let us prove His existence would be an idol.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on The Bible
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Justice
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Complacency
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Christianity
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Discipleship
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“Discipleship means adherence to the person of Jesus, and therefore submission to the law of Christ which is the law of the cross.”
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Dietrich’s Death
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithDietrich Bonhoeffer wrote theological books that have influenced multiple generations of pastors. He birthed the Confessing Church, and stood against the tyrannies of the Third Reich. The mighty accomplishments in his life are hard to quantify…and qualify.
But ironically, he is most remembered for his death.