Emphasis Preaching Journal

William Stringfellow, in a small book called An Ethic for Christians and Other Strangers in a Strange Land, says that what sets Christians aside from others is our ultimate assurance that death is not the end for us. The threat of death, he said, is what ultimately keeps most of us "in line." When we hear from guards in Nazi death camps that they had to do what they did, what we are hearing is that if they did not do what they were told, they would be killed, just as the inmates were being killed.