false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172431006m/174834.jpg 174834 7 "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." With these words, in <I>The Cost of Discipleship</I>, Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave powerful voice to the millions of Christians who believe personal sacrifice is an essential component of faith. Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian, was an exemplar of sacrificial faith: he opposed the Nazis from the first and was eventually imprisoned in Buchenwald and hung by the Gestapo in 1945. <I>The Cost of Discipleship</I>, first published in German in 1937, was Bonhoeffer's answer to the questions, "What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us to-day?" Bonhoeffer's answers are rooted in Lutheran grace and derived from Christian scripture (almost a third of the book consists of an extended meditation on the Sermon on the Mount). The book builds to a stunning conclusion: its closing chapter, "The Image of Christ," describes the believer's spiritual life as participation in Christ's incarnation, with a rare and epigrammatic confidence: "Through fellowship and communion with the incarnate Lord," Bonhoeffer writes, "we recover our true humanity, and at the same time we are delivered from that individualism which is the consequence of sin, and retrieve our solidarity with the whole human race." --<I>Michael Joseph Gross</I> 2723088 1963 The Cost of Discipleship total:912|5:440|4:334|3:114|2:22|1:2| 912 3924 1621 115 5 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 05:35:34 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 05:35:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Nov 22 21:54:02 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 21:54:56 -0800 2008 5 0 true false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:38:59 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 05:53:45 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 08 09:51:55 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 14:02:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 08:59:25 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 14:16:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 30 13:39:33 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 15:02:35 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 13:39:33 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 10:39:51 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 10:44:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 23 14:22:01 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 14:22:22 -0700 2008
“When Christ calls a man,” said Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “He bids him come...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 21 22:05:26 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 00:16:35 -0700 2007
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack's wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 31 17:31:02 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 17:33:56 -0700 2008
Full of convicting q...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri May 02 11:49:38 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 12:33:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 20:59:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 21:05:11 -0700 2009
I was challenged to submit my heart, and I was convicted to change. (But, really, that's what great about following Christ-- is He never lets you stay where you're at)

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This statement shook me up (in a good way). I think it could be the thesis--everything else is built on that. ]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 09:38:40 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 09:45:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 06 11:29:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 05:27:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 27 15:52:58 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 12:56:41 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=174834