What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So a big part of what we want to

encourage you guys to do is create an outpost through your home. That's kind of the end game for a lot of

what we're trying to do, a place where the kingdom is experienced and you're creating a house of

refuge. And so I'm always in the lookout for examples of these

kinds of homes. And there was a home in Germany before World War II that really served as a

house of refuge. And that was the house of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's parents. They had an amazing family,

an amazing family culture. Both Jeff and I got geeked out years ago on Eric

Pataxis's book on Bonhoffer. It's such a beautiful book. But probably where that home

culture was best described was by Bonhoffer's student Otto Dudesu. And he says this amazing

description of the musical evenings at his parents' house.

He said, um, whatever he had talking about Bonhofer and whatever he was, he made that accessible

to others. The great treasure he possessed was the cultivated, elegant, highly educated,

open-minded home of his parents, which he introduced us to. The open evenings, his house was

open for his disciples and family to come eat, play music, sing stories on Friday night,

which took place every week, has such an atmosphere that they became a piece of home for us as well.

And then Eric goes on to say, even when Bonhofer went to London in 1934, his parents continued to treat

these students like family, including them in the larger circle of their society and home.

Bonhofer did not separate his Christian life from his family life.

His parents were exposed to other bright students of theology, and his students were exposed to

the extraordinary Bonhofer family.

And, man, this is probably the part of the book that I got,

that I could not get out of my head after I finished it,

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