THE GOSPEL OF LUKE: - Vital Christianity

106This is where the rubber meets the road. Obedience to Christ’s demand that we carry ourcross—that we are dead to ourselves, the world, and sin—to follow Him is His standard.When Dietrich Bonhoeffer found out that he was to be executed for plotting to kill Hitler,he responded:“You must never doubt that I’m traveling with gratitude and cheerfulness alongthe road where I’m being led. My past life is brim full of God’s goodness, andmy sins are covered by the forgiving love of Christ crucified.” 7NOTES1Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton, IL:Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1992), 157.2Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship cited in “Discipleship,” ChristianityToday, compiled by Richard A. Kauffman (July 2004), 57.3Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ cited in “The Christian Quotation of the Day”http://www.eqod.com/index-04-11-09.html (7/19/2009), Page 1 of 2.4A. W. Tozer, Jesus, Author of our Faith cited in “Discipleship,” Christianity Today,compiled by Richard A. Kauffman (July 2004), 57.5Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship cited in The New Encyclopedia ofChristian Quotations, compiled by Mark Water (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1984), 693.6Ibid., 282.7Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (Touchstone, 1997), n. p.