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Just before his execution, he asked a fellow inmate to relate a message to the Bishop George Bell of Chichester
‘This is the end – for me the beginning of life.’

The camp doctor who witnessed the execution of Bonhoeffer later wrote,
“I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer … kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way
this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again
said a short prayer and then climbed the few steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after
a few seconds. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely
submissive to the will of God.”

Here is a man who saw left the comforts and safety of America to return to his country to resist evil. He
was willing to give his life to oppose evil. Do you have such a resolution, to live for Christ whatever the
cost?

Defying Hitler: The Story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.4 Let’s Practice…

1. From what country did Peter Marshall immigrate?

2. Peter Marshall’s wife wrote a famous book about her husband entitled,

3. In 1947 and again in 1949, Peter Marshall was appointed to what position?

4. Bonhoeffer talked about cheap grace. What did he mean by cheap grace?

5. Why did Bonhoeffer return to Germany after coming to America in 1939?

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