Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

by Eric Metaxas

that living the Christian life does not mean we must become dead-eyed zealots whose sole purpose is to avoid committing sins, and who in this abnegating endeavor limit our activities to the merely religious, making our own pinched personal piety the goal of our self-obsessed existence. Quite the contrary. To live our lives for others and in obedience to God is not at all what we had feared. Indeed, it is real freedom and true humanity.

You cannot claim you believe something if you don’t live like you believe it.

Audience of One,

contagious faith

we are saved, not by anything we do, but by grace. Yet if we have truly understood and believed the gospel, it will change what we do and how we live.

As long as we let the word be our only armor we can look confidently into the future.

Religion had been exiled to Sunday morning, to a place “into which one gladly withdraws for a couple of hours, but only to get back to one’s place of work immediately afterward.” He said that one cannot give him only a “small compartment in our spiritual life,” but must give him everything or nothing.

Christian life must be modeled.

believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions, and that we need only to ask repeatedly and a little humbly, in order to receive this answer.

in the Bible God speaks to us.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.