Comments on: Your mission, should you choose to accept it….

By: Jason Petty

Jason Petty — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:30:01 +0000

Well since I’ve been called out I better jump in the mix too. I definitely intend to watch it and hopefully use it as an aid to our bible studies! I’m gonna be late on the April 25 deadline though. Tomorrow…

On a side note, I love reading these blogs from everyone. One example of technology working FOR the kingdom instead of distracting us from our relationship with God.

By: Gary Spear

Gary Spear — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:36:21 +0000

Alright, I’m gonna watch it this week. If Courtney and Curt both say I should, then I probably should.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:38:08 +0000

Yay!!! I am excited. I hope your youthgroup will join me in the discussion. Maybe I can get Petty on board with this too….?

By: monkeedaddy

monkeedaddy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:36:39 +0000

I accept and have started preparing for the mission. We bought the movie and watched it in youth group this week. Kind of surprisingly, the kids really liked it. I was afraid they would lose interest, but it was very captivating. There’s a lot to chew on, so I’ll be mulling it over until the 25th. I’m trying to get Gary on board too. The more the merrier!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:45:24 +0000

A blog I sometimes contribute to has a page listing “Bonhoeffer Resources,” including a PB webpage with lots of facts and photos. Wellspringks.wordpress.com.

As far as I knowWilburforce didn’t take up arms against slaveholders, like John Brown did in Virginia and Kansas.

By: missbuss

missbuss — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:16:20 +0000

Thanks for the comment! And believe me, I was definitely just trying to bring up the idea of Bonhoeffer as someone of great conflict in that realm…and I definitely oversimplified for the sake of not becoming long winded. There’s a documentary I watched one night at a small theater in Nashville about his life. I wish I could remember who produced it, etc, because it was very good.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:17:32 +0000

I’ve been reading Bonhoeffer’s Ethics. It’s not light reading, but it’ worthwhile. He obviously doesn’t say, “This is why I tried to kill Hitler,” but if you read between the lines, you can tell he is struggling with that question.

Bonhoeffer remained a pacifist. He knew his involvement in the plot against Hitler was in some sense sin, and he thought of it as bearing the sin of his nation as part of the discipleship of following Jesus. He also thought it would be a greater sin to avoid doing what was necessary in an attempt to avoid staining himself with guilt. It would be the sin of self-righteousness.

He also believed you cannot make a law out of an exception that may be required in an extreme case.