Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

On this episode, we are continuing our series of looking at some of our favorite theologians in five sayings.

And today we are looking at Dietrich Bonhofer.

Now, Dietrich Bonhofer is a 20th century figure.

We're going to see him playing a crucial role in the events of World War II as they unfold.

But for this first quote, I want to go to 1930. Boniford finished his academic work.

He had two doctorates. He was about to start teaching at the

University of Berlin, and he requested a year's leave to go and study theological developments in the

United States. He would end up at New York, but he landed first at Philadelphia. He had

relatives in the Philadelphia area. And in 1930, he wrote a letter, mailed from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, back to his brother,

and in the letter, he writes, today, I'm supposed to learn how to play golf. Now, I want to start there

because it's not very theological or spiritual, but we need to remember that these church history

figures are people, too. I'm not sure how golf went for him. He says, I'm supposed to learn

how to play golf. Maybe he never made it out onto the links, but it doesn't seem like he talks about

golf a lot as his life unfold. So there it is. The second saying comes from these early years in

Bonifur 2, this from a sermon that he preached in Barcelona.

He was a youth pastor in Barcelona for several months.

He also liked to attend the bullfights there in Barcelona.

But in one of those sermons in 1928, he wrote, The Religion of Christ is not the tidbit after

the bread.

It is the bread itself. This is going to be a significant theme of Bonifer, of the centrality of Christ in the life of a Christian, not just on the margins, not just in certain areas, but really at the center and then permeating out. And so Christianity is not just the little bit, the tidbit he calls it after the bread.

No, it's the bread itself.

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