Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 Quotes by: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) “...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organized Church is only the inevitable consequence of our policy of making grace available to all at too low a cost. We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale, we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition. Our humanitarian sentiment made us give that which was holy to the scornful and unbelieving. We poured forth unending streams of grace. But the call to follow Jesus in the narrow way was hardly ever heard. Where were those truths which impelled the early Church to institute the catechumenate, which enabled a strict watch to be kept over the frontier between the Church and the world, and afforded adequate protection for costly grace? What had happened to all those warnings of Luthers against preaching the gospel in such a manner as to make men rest secure in their ungodly living? Was there ever a more terrible or disastrous instance of the Christianizing of the world than this? What are those three thousand Saxons put to death by Charlemagne compared with the millions of spiritual corpses in our country today? With us it has been abundantly proved that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations. Cheap grace has turned out to be utterly merciless to our Evangelical church.” *Dietrich speaking in the 1930’s of the state of the church in consequence of Lutheranism and Catholicism… which gave us Hitler, Nazi Germany and the Third Reich h from 1933 to 1945, when it was under control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. More to come……………. { dbonhoeffer.org/} ________________________________________ ________________________________________
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:39:07 +0000
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