The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Week 13: Chapter 13 — The Tramp for the Lord
Read Chapter 13 of The Hiding Place. Key Scripture: Matthew 28:19-20 — "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
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In the book's final chapter, Corrie steps fully into the calling that the camps forged — to carry the message of God's love and forgiveness to the world. And then comes the moment that tests everything she has preached: she must forgive a face she recognizes.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.The book's climactic moment of forgiveness occurs when Corrie encounters, after speaking at a church, a former Ravensbrück guard — one of the most cruel she remembered — who has since become a Christian and extends his hand to her asking for forgiveness. Walk through the scene carefully: What does Corrie feel? What does she do? How does forgiveness come to her?
a.She describes reaching out her hand as an act of will before the feeling arrived — and then the feeling followed. What does this sequence teach about the nature of forgiveness?
b.Is there someone in your own life whom you need to forgive — and whom you have been waiting to feel ready to forgive? What would it look like to extend the hand before the feeling comes?
2.Corrie is very clear that she could not forgive in her own strength — that she had to ask God to supply what she could not produce. How does this reframe the command to forgive? Does it make it more accessible or more demanding?
3.Corrie spent years traveling the world as a self-described "tramp for the Lord" — no permanent home, no security, no certainty about the next invitation. What sustained her in this itinerant life? What does her willingness to live this way reveal about her priorities?
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