Good Thursday Morning!
1. Question – Should churches stick to theological
issues and ignore national issues?
2. Thought – On September 1, 1931, Germany invaded
Poland and World War II began. Dietrich was now vulnerable
to military call-up, but until the call came he involved
himself in Confessing Church activities and wrote letters
to former students who were in the army.
As far as the Confessing Church, Dietrich was still
pressing its leadership to take a stronger stand on
controversial issues. This time he wanted the Church to
speak out against the war itself. What did it have to
lose, he reasoned. Yet many of the church leaders were
frightened of the consequences. No patriotic German was
speaking out against what had turned out to be a very
successful series of military actions. The leadership of
the Church wanted to stick to theological issues, and thus
in Dietrich’s eyes they were becoming increasingly
irrelevant. At one time he had been adamant about the need
for a theological resistance to the Reich Church, but
events had gone beyond that now. It was too late for the
Church to confine itself to such narrow concerns. (The
Story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Michael Van Dyke)
“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the
art.”
(Konstantin Stanislavsky)
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