COSTLY SERVICE
To be a servant of Christ is not easy. A model of servanthood can be found in the example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was a German minister born in 1906. He became a respected scholar and theologian at a young age. Bonhoeffer had foresight, and knew that the Nazi party was an evil plague for Germany and the world. He became a powerful voice of German resistance. Bonhoeffer had visited and studied in the United States; and he was offered a comfortable teaching position at one of America’s distinguished seminaries. But Bonhoeffer declined the offer in order to return to Germany and minister to his own people. He knew that if he returned to Germany he was a marked man. I often wonder what I would do in the same circumstances — facing certain death? But for Bonhoeffer there was no choice. He was a servant of Christ, no matter what the circumstances. He was arrested by the Nazis in 1943 and…
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