Unlearn Apathy Toward the Church

Learn to Be a Suffering Servant for the Church

In May of 1942, Czechoslovak resistance soldiers parachuted into Prague to assassinate German SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the “Final Solution”[1] and the Reich’s third in command after Hitler and Himmler. I’m somewhat hesitant to use an assassination as an example in a Christian book, but the evil that Heydrich was unleashing on a daily basis rivals any murderer in world history. Czech resistance fighters wanted the world to know that though their country was occupied, many of its citizens were not silent, passive, or accommodating. They received training and assistance from British forces for what would be the only assassination attempt of a world leader during all of World War II. As the Czech fighters prepared to depart for their mission, each man was given a cyanide tablet with the explanation, “Our assignment is to kill him; it isn’t to get away safely.”

I don’t know that any scene in a movie[2] moved me quite like watching that statement being made. It was so matter of fact. Our assignment isn’t to get away safely. Getting the job done is more important than surviving…

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