Sing louder 3

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Why does the man have these nightmares? Because he and his family and his church actually stood by and watched a few feet away as Jews were hauled to concentration camps. His childhood conscience was shocked, and it burned into his adult conscience.

A pastor of that time, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, didn't take the view of this boy's pastor. He claimed that the Christian church has a responsibility to fight evil:

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.

Not to speak is to speak.

Not to act is to act.”

Eric Metaxas wrote a biography of Bonhoeffer and sees the passive American church often doing what many German churches did then: ignoring evil in our own time, in our own country. His Letter to the American Church was written to call churches to fight it, not ignore it.

"Can it really be God’s will that His children be silent at a time like this? Decrying the cowardice that masquerades as godly meekness, Eric Metaxas summons the Church to battle."

Here is a trailer for the film that recently came out. Any church may screen it for free.