![]() ![]() Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.” ![]() Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.Ĭostly grace is the treasure hidden in the field for the sake of it a man will go and sell all that he has. “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. ![]() Throughout his life he came to develop the distinct concepts of cheap grace and costly grace: Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, professor, anti-Nazi spy, and ultimately, martyr. ![]()
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