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Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML: In an earnest and searing wake-up call, the author of the bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy warns of the haunting similarities between today's American church and the German church of the 1930s. Echoing Bonhoeffer's prophetic call, Eric Metaxas exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil before it is too late. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless." Turning the other cheek does not mean standing by while the enemies of God dismantle Christian civilization and brainwash our children. Decrying the cowardice that masquerades as meekness, Eric Metaxas summons the Church to battle. An attenuated and unbiblical "faith" based on what Bonhoeffer called "cheap grace" has sapped the spiritual vitality of millions of Americans. Paying lip service to an insipid "evangelism," they shrink from combating the evils of our time. Metaxas refutes the pernicious lie that fighting evil politicizes Christianity. As Bonhoeffer and other heroes of the faith insisted, the Church has an irreplaceable role in the culture of a nation. It is our duty to fight the powers of darkness, especially on behalf of the weak and vulnerable. Silence is not an option. God calls us to defend the unborn, to confront the lies of cultural Marxism, and to battle the globalist tyranny that crushes human freedom. 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..… (more)
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What the two churches, 90 years
Nor, says Metaxas, will it work for the American churches choosing to turn their back on the killing of babies in the womb, on the expansion of government power, on the loss of freedoms, on the lie that men can become women and women can become men simply by wishing it so, on the acceptance of promiscuous sex, even among children. Most churches, my own included, have nothing to say on issues that threaten America and, in fact, the church itself.
Metaxas devotes much of his book to challenging the idea that the church should stay out of politics. On the contrary, he argues that the Bible tells believers that they must be separate from the world around them, yet an active part of it at the same time. "Believers have always been called to speak the truth and to fight against injustice of any kind," he writes. "As we have said, we are obliged courageously to bring our faith to bear on all issues."
Bonhoeffer's warning to the German church was largely ignored, and perhaps this warning given by Eric Metaxas will be ignored as well. And perhaps 90 years from now, someone will find this book and feel inspired to give remnants of the Christian church much the same warning.
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