“We have come through a time of peril—and we are not finished with it yet—when we were told: ‘Everything will be quite different when you as a Church cease to have such an entirely different flavor—when you cease to practice preaching which is the opposite of what the world around you preaches. You really must suit your message to the world; you really must bring your creed into harmony with the present. Then you will again become influential and powerful.’”
— Martin Niemoller

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This sermon was preached in Berlin ca. 1936 after he had been threatened many times by Nazi-controlled Church authorities.

Tagged: Peril, Tribulation, Nazis, Church, Creed, harmony
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