Comments on: Bonhoeffer executed today in 1945 http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/ Life As it Is Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:08:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Theology for the Masses » Blog Archive » Chrisitan Carnival 189 http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-6012 Theology for the Masses » Blog Archive » Chrisitan Carnival 189 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:25:01 +0000 http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-6012 [...] The theme for this week is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Every post has a Bonhoeffer quote as an introduction, either from his work or from a biography of his life. [...] […] The theme for this week is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Every post has a Bonhoeffer quote as an introduction, either from his work or from a biography of his life. […]

]]> By: Diary of 1 » Christian Carnival 189: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Edition http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-753 Diary of 1 » Christian Carnival 189: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Edition Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:37:42 +0000 http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-753 [...] I am so pleased to present the 189th Christian Carnival, which I have labeled The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Edition. I wrote about Bonhoeffer back in April, on the anniversary of his death. I couldn’t resist returning to this compelling character, most well known for his martyrdom at the hands of Hitler. When I ran into a Christian friend of mine at the library about six months ago, lamenting to her that our little library had no Bonhoeffer books, and she replied, “who is Bonhoeffer?” - well, I would like to introduce you to him, if you also have not been acquainted with this German pastor, theologian, Christan, and man for his times. [...] […] I am so pleased to present the 189th Christian Carnival, which I have labeled The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Edition. I wrote about Bonhoeffer back in April, on the anniversary of his death. I couldn’t resist returning to this compelling character, most well known for his martyrdom at the hands of Hitler. When I ran into a Christian friend of mine at the library about six months ago, lamenting to her that our little library had no Bonhoeffer books, and she replied, “who is Bonhoeffer?” - well, I would like to introduce you to him, if you also have not been acquainted with this German pastor, theologian, Christan, and man for his times. […]

]]> By: Dana http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-65 Dana Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:19:15 +0000 http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-65 Ah, can't resist popping in with something here, but my comments turned into <a href="http://gottsegnet.blogspot.com/2007/04/christian-resistance.html" rel="nofollow">an entry</a>. So I'll let you read it over at my place. Ah, can’t resist popping in with something here, but my comments turned into an entry. So I’ll let you read it over at my place.

]]> By: Jen http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-64 Jen Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:14:12 +0000 http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-64 Bonhoeffer spoke at length about the cross: "…and take up his cross." … Only when we have become completely oblivious of self are we ready to bear the cross for His sake. If in the end we know only Him, if we have ceased to notice the pain of our own cross, we are indeed looking only unto Him. If Jesus had not so graciously prepared us for this word, we should have found it unbearable. p. 97, The Cost of Discipleship. And then Bonhoeffer says this - very profound words worth meditating on: "It is not suffering per se but suffering-and-rejection, and not rejection for any cause of conviction of our own, but rejection for the sake of Christ. If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity… We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering. "The Psalmist was lamenting that he was despised and rejected of men, and that is an essential quality of the suffering of the cross. But this notion has ceased to be intelligible to a Christianity which can no longer see any difference between an ordinary human life and life committed to Christ. The cross means sharing the suffering of Christ to the last and to the fullest." p. 98 Thanks for reading, Jane! Bonhoeffer spoke at length about the cross:

“…and take up his cross.” … Only when we have become completely oblivious of self are we ready to bear the cross for His sake. If in the end we know only Him, if we have ceased to notice the pain of our own cross, we are indeed looking only unto Him. If Jesus had not so graciously prepared us for this word, we should have found it unbearable. p. 97, The Cost of Discipleship.

And then Bonhoeffer says this - very profound words worth meditating on:

“It is not suffering per se but suffering-and-rejection, and not rejection for any cause of conviction of our own, but rejection for the sake of Christ. If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity… We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering.

“The Psalmist was lamenting that he was despised and rejected of men, and that is an essential quality of the suffering of the cross. But this notion has ceased to be intelligible to a Christianity which can no longer see any difference between an ordinary human life and life committed to Christ. The cross means sharing the suffering of Christ to the last and to the fullest.” p. 98

Thanks for reading, Jane!

]]> By: Jane http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-63 Jane Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:55:17 +0000 http://www.diaryof1.com/2007/04/09/bonhoeffer-executed-today-in-1945/#comment-63 I am reading the Hiding Place- the story of the persecution experienced by the Ten Boom family during the same era. I have been asking myself if my faith would be that strong. I was reading today in Luke 9 where it tells us to take up our cross daily- I challenged myself to grow closer to the Lord so that I could see the areas where I am lukewarm more clearly. I am reading the Hiding Place- the story of the persecution experienced by the Ten Boom family during the same era. I have been asking myself if my faith would be that strong. I was reading today in Luke 9 where it tells us to take up our cross daily- I challenged myself to grow closer to the Lord so that I could see the areas where I am lukewarm more clearly.

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