Question: Complete the follwing: "If any man will come after me, let him..."
Answer: "deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."(Matthew 16:24)
Comments: Lutheran theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) explained, "To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is: 'He leads the way, keep close to him.'" (Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (Touchstone, 1995), p. 88)
Bonhoeffer understood the "cost of discipleship." After resisting Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime, Bonhoeffer was imprisoned and hanged at dawn on April 9, 1945 - just three weeks before the liberation of Berlin and one month before the capitulation of Nazi Germany.
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