The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Week 11: Chapter 11 — The Blue Sweater
Read Chapter 11 of The Hiding Place. Key Scripture: John 11:25-26 — "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die."
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Betsie dies in Ravensbrück — peacefully, radiantly, and with a message still on her lips. This chapter confronts us with death and asks us to look at it honestly, through the lens of resurrection faith.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Describe Betsie's death as Corrie witnesses it. What is striking about how Betsie appears in death? What does Corrie see in her sister's face, and how does it affect her?
2.Betsie's final words to Corrie contain the vision for what they will do after the war — the damaged people who will need homes where they can learn to live again. She says, "We must tell people what we have learned here — that there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still." What does this sentence mean? How does it hold up as a theological claim against all that they have experienced?
3.Corrie is released from Ravensbrück shortly after Betsie's death — due, it is later discovered, to a clerical error. What is your reaction to this detail? What does it raise for you about God's sovereignty, providence, and the apparent randomness of survival?
a.How do you hold together the truth that Betsie died and Corrie was spared — not through any obvious merit or plan — with the belief that God is in control?
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