![]() ![]() Elijah left his parents people who followed Jesus were told that they too would have to leave family responsibilities behind. The readings for today demonstrate this cost of discipleship. But we will be expected to live in a certain way. While discipleship might force some people to decide between life or death, few of us will be asked to pay that ultimate price. He was hanged by the Nazis on April 9, 1945. The plot was uncovered, Bonhoeffer was apprehended, and the ultimate “cost” of discipleship was exacted of him. ![]() His own religious convictions led him to stand up to the tyranny of Nazi Germany and to participate in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian, wrote a series of reflections on the Sermon on the Mount entitled The Cost of Discipleship, in which he maintained that discipleship requires us to make a fundamental decision to follow Jesus and to accept the conseuences of that decision. ![]()
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