Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What can we learn from his life?

Read & Reflect: Read Mark 8:31-38.
Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian, who wrote, spoke and acted against the evil of the Nazi regime.
Bonhoeffer was executed by Nazis in 1945, having been put in a concentration camp. He believed strongly that we should imitate Christ and that the church must at all times be involved in opposing evil, even when this might prove so very costly.

Bonhoeffer wrote: “Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”. He wrote and talked about suffering as we really follow Jesus – and Bonhoeffer did this to the extent of being killed as he followed Christ.

Respond: Hateful politics have a louder voice in our world today. What are we, as Christians, going to do about this?