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The Cost of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Will Waller's review
bookshelves: classic, non-fiction, religious
May 08, 2011
bookshelves: classic, non-fiction, religious
Read in January, 2009
The cost of discipleship was an important one for me-turned a new corner with this one. Here are some of my notes from it:
The seemingly dischotomous problem of the clals to faith through grace with the call to obedience as well.
* they are not divorced but are united--the story of Peter and the boat.
* he must be called to obey -- they faith in Jesus exists and he obeys the call to it.
* to the sinner who struggles with faith he must obey Jesus' way then he will find faith.
Story of the young rich man: 3 points: Jesus gives it as a commitment, not from God but from the son of God (not a good master)
The commandment to sell everything makes obedience neceesary before discpleship; the end is Jesus--he is the way.
" There is no time for questions..." "We are confrtoned by Jesus to spontaneous obedience.
Exegesis on the Young Rich Man:
* to say that literal interpretation of the story is not applicable. Today it is wrong to change the singleminded obedience into downright disobedience.
* Faith is primary but not so that obedience is disregarded faith is more liberating/accessible in following commandments.
We are not contemporaries of this message yet we cannot escape--it is the Christ who utters them.
The cross is the way of Christ. In it we find suffering, yet it will pass away in his yoke is easy.
We to must bear the sins of ritches.
Jesus calls us to stand done before him, to give purity, family in order.
We must not affirm our situation/sin by saying Christ has already born our sin so its okay to exist in it.
Beatitudes:
The beautitudes represent a connection to Christ @ Golgotha. "With him who has lost it all, all is found."
* the disciples must make peace, be persecuted, suffer, must lose dignity; be living with sinners, simply bearing the suffering that comes the way of a follower of Christ.
Salt v. Light - Salt is the necessary element to preserve, therefore it may never lose its cleansing power; you are the salt, not you must be therefore, to reject the nature of one's life is to reject Christ and you are thrown out our light must not shine in a reflection of our own work but to point to Christ.
The righteousness of the disciples is better because of the cacll by Jesus of a partnership with his righteousness. He doesn't come between them and the law but connects them to it.
Murder: by pronoucning judgment, anger on our brother, we are making ourselves God and commiting murder. We are placing our worth above that of our brother; as long as we bring contempt to the altar of God for our brother. We cannot connect with God; because Christ loved us, we too must love our brother.
The reason why lust is impure is it keeps us from believing in God's power, are beliving in what is seen, not unseen; our bodies belong to Christ and a affirmation to keep them know he is God.
Oath: an oath is unncessary because we are called to absolute truthfulness in Christ; we must not pledge for the future as one can't dictate it, only God; and all evil must be must be laid bare.
Revenge: calls us to expose sinfulness through non-violence. Reveals that christian life is not one that heaps evil for evil like politics.
Loving enemies: Jesus is calling us to love them, releasing the love more because he from the lies of old Israel; the enemy is the one who despises us. Not the one we despise; we must pray for them, that which they cannot do; to lvo eour enemies so we may connect with them through the cross as Jesus loved his enemies there; the word is (insert greek word) the extraordinary "the surpreme scandal" of the Christian life; in the cruciform, this become relaity.
Abstemious: Christian lifestyle demands self-discipline. must be willing to understand the cross desires of the flesh.`
Chapter 16: the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle f the spiritwith every available weapon of the flesh; "we cannot let our asceticism become our imitation of Christ's suffering. Equal to this without idolatry.
Chatper 17: the disciple must keep his single eye on Christ; If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world to the creature instead of the creator the disciple is lost. We msut examine what our treasure is and there our heart will be ; we cannot be given to accumulating wealth, but use daily the God given things with thankfulness. You cannot serve two masters, making loving God/hating him, an either/or event. To worry about the morrow or to assume we can change it is to assume the throne of God and perfom blasphemy; we should store up but be thankful for our daily sustenance.
Chapter 18: as disciples, they must not judge despite their special relationship with Christ. To sit in judgment of others is to deny that our own sin is in our hearts. And it is to justify our sinfulness; the one like this receoives no special gicfts other than the strength hat comes from our relationship with Jesus.
Chatper 19: The way of the disciples is exceddinyl narrow, few can follow: all the commands of Christ point to a way utterly different from the way of the world. We have Christ’s strength alone. Many false prophets shall arise and we shall look to their merts to see their worth.
A thte end, we must not rest on our own laurels of our Church. But on the doing of his will; there is the separation between the sayers and the doers. In the end, it is Christ’s call that we can only cling to.
Chatper 20 at the end of the sermon on the mount, one may be odedient and be as the man who built his house on the rock or not do it; like the man on the sand house.
Chatper 21-26: gives a play by play for the role of the discipleship.
Chapter 27: our call today is the same as the one of the disciple. We must love the Lord with our all. It is simply; follow me means baptism recognizes a breach with a previous life. A clear change.
The seemingly dischotomous problem of the clals to faith through grace with the call to obedience as well.
* they are not divorced but are united--the story of Peter and the boat.
* he must be called to obey -- they faith in Jesus exists and he obeys the call to it.
* to the sinner who struggles with faith he must obey Jesus' way then he will find faith.
Story of the young rich man: 3 points: Jesus gives it as a commitment, not from God but from the son of God (not a good master)
The commandment to sell everything makes obedience neceesary before discpleship; the end is Jesus--he is the way.
" There is no time for questions..." "We are confrtoned by Jesus to spontaneous obedience.
Exegesis on the Young Rich Man:
* to say that literal interpretation of the story is not applicable. Today it is wrong to change the singleminded obedience into downright disobedience.
* Faith is primary but not so that obedience is disregarded faith is more liberating/accessible in following commandments.
We are not contemporaries of this message yet we cannot escape--it is the Christ who utters them.
The cross is the way of Christ. In it we find suffering, yet it will pass away in his yoke is easy.
We to must bear the sins of ritches.
Jesus calls us to stand done before him, to give purity, family in order.
We must not affirm our situation/sin by saying Christ has already born our sin so its okay to exist in it.
Beatitudes:
The beautitudes represent a connection to Christ @ Golgotha. "With him who has lost it all, all is found."
* the disciples must make peace, be persecuted, suffer, must lose dignity; be living with sinners, simply bearing the suffering that comes the way of a follower of Christ.
Salt v. Light - Salt is the necessary element to preserve, therefore it may never lose its cleansing power; you are the salt, not you must be therefore, to reject the nature of one's life is to reject Christ and you are thrown out our light must not shine in a reflection of our own work but to point to Christ.
The righteousness of the disciples is better because of the cacll by Jesus of a partnership with his righteousness. He doesn't come between them and the law but connects them to it.
Murder: by pronoucning judgment, anger on our brother, we are making ourselves God and commiting murder. We are placing our worth above that of our brother; as long as we bring contempt to the altar of God for our brother. We cannot connect with God; because Christ loved us, we too must love our brother.
The reason why lust is impure is it keeps us from believing in God's power, are beliving in what is seen, not unseen; our bodies belong to Christ and a affirmation to keep them know he is God.
Oath: an oath is unncessary because we are called to absolute truthfulness in Christ; we must not pledge for the future as one can't dictate it, only God; and all evil must be must be laid bare.
Revenge: calls us to expose sinfulness through non-violence. Reveals that christian life is not one that heaps evil for evil like politics.
Loving enemies: Jesus is calling us to love them, releasing the love more because he from the lies of old Israel; the enemy is the one who despises us. Not the one we despise; we must pray for them, that which they cannot do; to lvo eour enemies so we may connect with them through the cross as Jesus loved his enemies there; the word is (insert greek word) the extraordinary "the surpreme scandal" of the Christian life; in the cruciform, this become relaity.
Abstemious: Christian lifestyle demands self-discipline. must be willing to understand the cross desires of the flesh.`
Chapter 16: the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle f the spiritwith every available weapon of the flesh; "we cannot let our asceticism become our imitation of Christ's suffering. Equal to this without idolatry.
Chatper 17: the disciple must keep his single eye on Christ; If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world to the creature instead of the creator the disciple is lost. We msut examine what our treasure is and there our heart will be ; we cannot be given to accumulating wealth, but use daily the God given things with thankfulness. You cannot serve two masters, making loving God/hating him, an either/or event. To worry about the morrow or to assume we can change it is to assume the throne of God and perfom blasphemy; we should store up but be thankful for our daily sustenance.
Chapter 18: as disciples, they must not judge despite their special relationship with Christ. To sit in judgment of others is to deny that our own sin is in our hearts. And it is to justify our sinfulness; the one like this receoives no special gicfts other than the strength hat comes from our relationship with Jesus.
Chatper 19: The way of the disciples is exceddinyl narrow, few can follow: all the commands of Christ point to a way utterly different from the way of the world. We have Christ’s strength alone. Many false prophets shall arise and we shall look to their merts to see their worth.
A thte end, we must not rest on our own laurels of our Church. But on the doing of his will; there is the separation between the sayers and the doers. In the end, it is Christ’s call that we can only cling to.
Chatper 20 at the end of the sermon on the mount, one may be odedient and be as the man who built his house on the rock or not do it; like the man on the sand house.
Chatper 21-26: gives a play by play for the role of the discipleship.
Chapter 27: our call today is the same as the one of the disciple. We must love the Lord with our all. It is simply; follow me means baptism recognizes a breach with a previous life. A clear change.
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Let me explain: I am a mature Christian, part of a Quaker community. Ever since I first truly understood the gospel story of Jesus as an adolescent, his teachings of love became a part of me and how I chose to live my life.
Since my early 40s (I am now in my mid-fifties), I knew that I needed to take the next step in my spiritual evolution, that is to become one of his disciples. I am now several chapters into Bonhoeffer's book and know that he speaks the truths I have needed to understand in order to take this step in its full meaning.
Now knowing what I know I must do, it has somehow become difficult to hear his words--and I found myself stuck in being able to continue his book. Your notes have given me a better sense of what more Bonhoeffer has to say to me. And this will allow me to pick up his book again to continue to listen.
Thank you for this.