A great thought provoking read setting forth Bonhoeffer's thoughts on the Word as it relates to discipleship. I particularly appreciated his thoughts on "cheap" vs. "costly" grace: "cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ." While Gods grace is freely given it isn't free, and while you could never earn God's grace through your own works, your own works will play a part in your relationship with Christ, or as Bonhoeffer puts it: "Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes." Well laid out discussion and lots of scriptural references make this a highly recommended read and the brief forward and Memoir of the 1995 Simon and Schuster edition helped put Dietrich Bonhoeffer's thoughts into historical context. I would give this book a 4.5 out of 5, some of the language is kind of awkward, but I think that comes from the translation from German into English.