Revisiting Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Seed Thoughts

Greetings all. 

If you missed this story the first time around, it is being re-aired tomorrow on the 700 Club (July 14,2011). I have been to Germany (Berlin and Nuremburg) since then and as a result makes this story even more poignant for me.

This story describes Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who on the morning of April 9, 1945, was led to the gallows at Flossenburg concentration camp and hanged for his role as a double-agent in the plot to overthrow Adolph Hitler.

This one man and his compatriots worked to overthrow the Nazi regime. History tells us who won.

Bonhoeffer’s amazing story, the first major biography in 40 years, penned by Eric Metaxas, comes on the 65th anniversary of Bonhoeffer’s execution by the Nazis on direct order of Hitler himself. It was one of the last orders he ever issued. Three weeks later he was dead by his own hand and World War 2 in Europe ended.

Watch my interview with Eric Metaxas on the 700 Club and learn through this dramatic book, that reads like a novel, about this life that mattered.

Bonhoeffer: A Biography by Eric Metaxas, has won numerous awards since we aired this story originally.

And now some seed thoughts:

• Religion is a “bad trip.”

• John the Baptist would never have fit into the contemporary religious culture. He didn’t keep his suit pressed, wear a tie, was not careful about choosing “politically correct” language.

• It took Jesus three and a half years to disciple his men out of religion into relationships – a spiritual family.

• Religion can’t love you.

• God wants a people – relationships.

• “In the beginning: Father, Son, Holy Spirit” – Relationship

• In the garden: “Adam where are you?” – relationship

• In the end: Revelation – God in the midst of his people – relationships

• “The more I know, the less I know.” – Socrates.

              I used to know a lot –

              Scott Ross