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Letter to the American Church
Eric Metaxas
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In "Letter to the American Church," bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers a provocative wake-up call: Is today's American Church repeating Nazi Germany's fatal silence? Drawing parallels to Bonhoeffer's era, this controversial manifesto challenges Christians to speak against what he identifies as modern evils.

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When Silence Becomes Complicity

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In 1932, a young German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood before Berlin's elite congregation and delivered a warning that would echo across history. The German Church, he declared, had drifted so far from authentic faith that God would judge them unless they repented. Eleven years later, Allied bombs reduced that same church to rubble-a haunting fulfillment of prophecy. Today, this story carries urgent relevance. The parallels between 1930s Germany and contemporary America aren't about equating specific regimes, but about recognizing a pattern: what happens when the Church mistakes silence for spirituality, when it confuses cultural retreat with godliness, when it prioritizes respectability over righteousness. The German Church possessed something we lack-the excuse of ignorance. They couldn't foresee where their small compromises would lead. We have no such luxury. History has handed us a roadmap of catastrophic failure, making our potential repetition of their mistakes inexcusable.

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