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# The call to come and die
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20071225the-call-to-come-and-die-html/
- Published: 2007-12-25T00:27:09.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:16.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

From [In the Clearing: Beyond the need/fulfillment-of-need trajectory](http://intheclearing.blogspot.com/2007/12/beyond-needfulfillment-of-need.html?ref=dashhouse.com):

> If, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously said, the call of Jesus Christ is always a call to come and die, well, that dying is not something the church can build a program around.

[via](http://transformingsermons.blogspot.com/2007/12/beyond-need-trajectory.html?ref=dashhouse.com)