God Is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611642018
Publisher: ABQ Press
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Give me strength to bear what you send,

and do not let fear rule over me. 3

Dietrich Bonhoeffer,

“Prayers in Times of Distress”

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

FOURTH SATURDAY OF LENT

Suffering and Being Rejected

Death on the cross means suffering and dying as one who is rejected and cast out. Jesus must suffer and be rejected by virtue of divine necessity. Any attempt to interfere with what is necessary is satanic—even and precisely when it comes out of the circle of the disciples, for it does not want to let Christ be Christ. . . . Thus for Jesus it now becomes necessary to relate the “must” of suffering to his disciples in a clear and unambiguous way. As Christ is Christ only as the suffering and rejected one, so the disciple is a disciple only as one who suffers and is rejected, as one crucified with Jesus. Discipleship, understood as being bound to the person of Jesus Christ, places the disciple under the law of Christ, that is, under the cross.

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