131 Christians Everyone Should Know

So I picked up this book at Barnes & Noble today at Americana (where I ran into Mr. Chang at Wetzel Pretzels!). I was actually looking to pick up a biography of somebody, hopefully an anointed book so that it inspires me and ignites a spark in my body of dead wood to become alive. Scoping out books and knowing only a handful of names, Billy Graham, Mother Therese, and St Augustine just to name a few, I realized I didn't know enough to pick a biography out that I was interested in, thus my selection of this neat piece of work.

It has about 3 pages per "Christian" ranging from those focused in arts to martyrs to theologians. Hopefully this will springboard me into finding a biography of a couple of these renowned characters.

Started off with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The faithful follower truly understood the times and his role in Nazi Germany; however, it struck me when I read the first paragraph:

"The time is fulfilled for the German people of Hitler. It is because of Hitler that Christ, God the helper and redeemer, has become effective among us. . . . Hitler is the way of the Spirit and the will of God for the German people to enter the Church of Christ." So spoke German pastor Hermann Grunner. Another pastor put it more succinctly: "Christ has come to us through Adolph Hitler."

It struck me how deceived even the pastors were with Adolf Hitler's presence. The numerous comparisons between Hitler and the Anti-Christ boggle my mind because according to this one instance, even those who proclaim themselves as Christians will boldly state that "Christ has come to  us through the Anti-Christ" and Christ will be portrayed as the Anti-Christ. Furthermore, since the Anti-Christ is far more intelligent, charismatic, and simply put more powerful than Hitler, what Hitler was to Germans, Anti-Christ will be to the human race.

Oh God, gives us eyes to see and ears to hear before we are deceived.