I pray every Christ follower in our nation will take to the time to read and consider what Eric has presented. The message is historically informed, Biblically sound and I believe 'Spirit-directed'. In Letter to the American Church he has issued a call to action. 'Eric Metaxas has spent years researching and writing about giants of our faith from that wealth of insight and understanding he has taken a new step. Lutzer, Pastor Emeritus, Moody Church, Chicago I personally think this is Eric Metaxas most important book for us today.' -Erwin W. I think you will find that question more difficult to answer than you expected. If you are inclined to think you might disagree with what he has to say, here is my challenge: read this book and ask yourself where does Eric have it wrong?. I found myself arguing with Eric over some points, but I was struck with the uncanny parallels he draws between the compliant churches in Nazi Germany and our churches today. 'This book is like a bucket of cold water thrown into the face of a sleeping church. Confident that this is His fight, the Church must overcome fear and enter the fray, armed with the spiritual weapons of prayer, self-sacrifice, and love. God calls us to defend the unborn, to confront the lies of cultural Marxism, and to battle the globalist tyranny that crushes human freedom. It is our duty to fight the powers of darkness, especially on behalf of the weak and vulnerable. As Bonhoeffer and other heroes of the faith insisted, the Church has an irreplaceable role in the culture of a nation.

Metaxas refutes the pernicious lie that fighting evil politicizes Christianity. In the most comprehensive biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer since 1967, Eric Metaxas introduces to a new generation the life and times of arguably the greatest theologian of the 20 th century. Paying lip service to an insipid 'evangelism,' they shrink from combating the evils of our time. Echoing the German martyr’s prophetic call, he exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil.Īn attenuated and unbiblical 'faith' based on what Bonhoeffer called 'cheap grace' has sapped the spiritual vitality of millions of Americans. The author of a bestselling biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas reveals the haunting similarities between today’s American Church and the German Church of the 1930s.

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