The Battle is Not Yours

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on pastoral care, false teachers, and church discipline

I’ve been convinced for a long time now that Bonhoeffer’s fame works against us, making it hard if not outright impossible to take him on his own terms. The noise of what we think we know about him and his theology (his critique of cheap grace, say, or his part, whatever it was, in a plot to kill Hitler) drowns out what he actually did and said.

It’s wo…