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Основа і гріхів і моральності - бути Господом і Спасителем свого життя: всіма своїми вчинками, добрими і лихими, намагатися обіграти Бога або ж контролювати його, щоб отримати те, чого прагнемо.

Прощення нічого не коштує винуватцю, але воно дорого коштує вам.

Фарисеї каються тільки у своїх гріхах, а християни - у коренях своєї праведності.

Оснований на страху моралізм не тільки не зміцнює фундаментальної егоцентрчності людського серця, а й посилює її.

Bonhoeffer warned about the dangers of the teaching that stresses only that grace is free, so it doesn’t matter how we live.
Focus on how seriously God takes sin and on how he could only save us from it at infinite cost to himself.
This must and will deeply reshape us. We won’t be able to live selfishly. “We won’t mind the cost of following after Christ when we compare it to the price he paid to rescue us.”

In order to grow in Christ, you keep telling yourself how graciously loved and accepted you are.
It doesn’t seem to be the best way to make progress? Wonder what incentive will you have to live a good life?
Then ask what was your motivation in the first place? It could only have been fear. What other incentive is there? Awed, grateful love.
God’s grace is free, but it is also costly, infinitely so. (Bonhoeffer)

Paul didn’t put pressure directly on the will or on the emotions, telling them stories about how much the poor are suffering and how much more they have. Instead, he says, “You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9). Paul is taking them back to the gospel.

In order to survive and grow, individuals must eat and drink regularly. That’s what we must do with the gospel of the grace of God. We must personally appropriate it, making it more and more central to everything we see, think, and feel. That is how we grow spiritually in wisdom, love, joy, and peace.