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Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 7:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

CHEAP GRACE MEANS THE JUSTIFICATION
OF SIN WITHOUT THE JUSTIFICATION OF
THE SINNER. Grace alone does everything,
they say, and so everything can remain as it
was before. "All for sin could not atone." The
world goes on in the same old way, and we
are still sinners "even in the best life" as
Luther said. Well, then, let the Christian live
like the rest of the world, let him model
himself on the world's standards in every
sphere of life, and NOT PRESUMPTUOUSLY
ASPIRE TO LIVE A DIFFERENT LIFE UNDER
GRACE FROM HIS OLD LIFE UNDER SIN.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.43-44.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 7:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[CHEAP GRACE] WAS THE HERESY of the
enthusiasts, the Anabaptists and their kind.
Let the Christian beware of rebelling against
the free and boundless grace of God and
DESECRATING it [Jude 4].

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.44.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 7:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[CHEAP GRACE ADVOCATES SAY:] LET [THE
CHRISTIAN] NOT ATTEMPT TO ERECT A
NEW RELIGION OF THE LETTER BY
ENDEAVOURING TO LIVE A LIFE OF
OBEDIENCE to the commandments of Jesus
Christ! The world has been justified by grace.
The [cheap grace] Christian knows that, and,
and takes it seriously. He knows that he must
not strive against this indispensable grace.
Therefore -- let him live like the rest of the
world! Of course he would like to go and do
something extraordinary, and it does demand
a good deal of self-restraint to refrain form the
attempt and content himself with living as the
world lives. Yet it is imperative for the Christian
to achieve renunciation, to practise self-
effacement, to distinguish his life from the life
of the world. He must let grace be grace
indeed, otherwise he will destroy the world's
faith in the free gift of grace. Let the Christian
REST CONTENT WITH HIS WORLDLINESS
and withthis renunciation of any higher
standard than the world.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.44.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 7:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[THE "CHEAP GRACE" CHRISTIAN] is
[RESTING CONTENT WITH HIS
WORLDLINESS] for the sake of the world
rather than for the sake of grace. Let him be
comforted and rest assured in his
possession of this grace -- for [in his mind]
grace alone does everything. Instead of
following Christ, let the ["cheap grace"]
Christian enjoy the consolations of his grace!
That is what we mean by cheap grace, the
grace which amounts to the JUSTIFICATION
OF SIN WITHOUT THE JUSTIFICATION OF
THE REPENTANT SINNER who departs from
sin and from whom sin departs. Cheap grace
is not the kind of forgiveness of sin which
frees us from the toils of sin. CHEAP GRACE
IS THE GRACE WE BESTOW ON
OURSELVES.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.44.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 7:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

CHEAP GRACE IS THE PREACHING OF
FORGIVENESS WITHOUT REQUIRING
REPENTANCE, baptism without church
discipline, Communion without confession,
absolution without personal confession.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.44-45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 7:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

CHEAP GRACE IS GRACE WITHOUT
DISCIPLESHIP, grace without the cross, grace
without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 7:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

COSTLY GRACE IS THE TREASURE HIDDEN
IN THE FIELD; for the sake of it a man will
gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl
of great price[;] to buy [it] the merchant will sell
all his goods.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[COSTLY GRACE] IS THE KINGLY RULE OF
CHRIST, for whose sake a man will pluck out
the eye which causes him to stumble.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[COSTLY GRACE] IS THE CALL OF JESUS
CHRIST at which the disciple leaves his nets
and follows him.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

COSTLY GRACE IS THE GOSPEL which must
be SOUGHT again and again, the gift which
must be ASKED for, the door at which a man
must KNOCK.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[COSTLY] GRACE IS COSTLY BECAUSE IT
CALLS US TO FOLLOW, and it is GRACE
because it calls us to follow JESUS CHRIST.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[COSTLY GRACE] IS COSTLY BECAUSE IT
COSTS A MAN HIS LIFE, and it is grace
because it gives a man the only true life.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[COSTLY GRACE] IS COSTLY BECAUSE IT
CONDEMNS SIN, and grace because it
justifies the sinner.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ABOVE ALL, [COSTLY GRACE] IS COSTLY
BECAUSE IT COST GOD THE LIFE OF HIS
SON: "ye were bought at a price," and what
has cost God much cannot be cheap for us.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ABOVE ALL, [COSTLY GRACE] IS GRACE
because God did not reckon his Son too dear
a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up
for us.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

COSTLY GRACE IS THE INCARNATION OF
GOD.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

COSTLY GRACE IS THE SANCTUARY OF
GOD; it has to be protected from the world,
and not thrown to the dogs. It is therefore the
living word, the Word of God [Jesus Christ],
which he speaks as it pleases him.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

COSTLY GRACE CONFRONTS US as a
gracious call to follow Jesus, it comes as a
word of forgiveness to the broken spirit and
the contrite heart.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

GRACE IS COSTLY BECAUSE IT COMPELS a
man to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow
him; it is grace because Jesus says; "My yoke
is easy and my burden is light."

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.45.
Max
Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 8:28 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

[THE GRACE RECEIVED BY PETER] WAS
CERTAINLY NOT SELF-BESTOWED. It was
the grace of Christ himself, now prevailing
upon the disciple to leave all and follow him,
now working in him that confession which TO
THE WORLD MUST SOUND LIKE THE
ULTIMATE BLASPHEMY, now inviting Peter to
the supreme followship of MARTYRDOM for
the Lord he had denied, and thereby forgiving
him all his sins. In the life of Peter GRACE
AND DISCIPLESHIP ARE INSEPARABLE. He
had received the grace which costs.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship,
p.46.

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