My sermon text for this coming Sunday is Matthew 7:21-27.  In my study, I read the following from the commentary, The Bible Speaks Today: The Message of Matthew by Michael Green.  He referred to Dietrich Bonhoeffer…

In our postmodern, relativistic and plural culture, how do Christians justify this exclusivism (that Jesus is the only true foundation for life and eternity), which seems to be so arrogant?  It is not that we are defending Christianity and saying it is better than anything else.  Often it is not.  Often it is shoddy and does not stand comparison with the ethos of what is best in other faiths or in liberal humanism.  No, it is not the religion of Christianity that disciples are concerned to vindicate.

With Dietrich Bonhoeffer, we believe that Jesus Christ came to destroy religion.  Religion, if conceived as a human attempt to become acceptable to God by whatever sytem of beliefs and practice is a beggar’s refuge.  It will not keep out the wind and the hail (109-110).