back to bonhoffer. i tried. bonhoffer was born into an amazing family. his father was a most famous psychiatrist in germany. this was a big, important, amazing family. at 14 he announces that he wants to be a theologian, a doctor at 21. anybody want to be a doctor at 21? bonhoeffer was a great theologian, but he decided he wanted be ordained as a lutheran pastor. in 1924 he went to study at union theological seminary. but one sunday, a fellow student named frank fisher, an african-american from alabama, invited dieterich bonhoeffer to harlem to a church called abyssinian baptist church. and bonhoeffer went with him and for the first time in his life in that church, he saw something that was clearly not mere phoney religion. he saw people worshipping a living god, he saw people who understood suffering and whose worship was real. bonhoeffer said that in new york and america, he did not hear the gospel pro claimed. think of this. he visited many, many churches. he did not hear the gospel proclaimed except in his words, in the negro churches. that was the o