The Cost of Discipleship

I thought to myself that idea Bonhoeffer wrote a book the cost of discipleship where he famously talks about cheap grace because the excuse given by the Germans the theologians and pastors at the time was well it's all about grace it's it's it's less about what we do because Luther said oh we're not saved by our works well congratulations you're correct you're not saved by your works however there is a little scripture in the epistle of James that says faith without works is dead another words if you're foolish enough to believe that you can have faith and not events it in how you live then you're a fool then actually biblically you have no faith and so I think that that bad idea about grace and faith which you know we get and again these are always you know these are good ideas taken to extremes right well you know faith is what I believe uh yes that's that's a nice idea but it can become unmoored from the reality that what you believe has to be lived out it has to be an integral part of who you are it has to be holistic and the Germans were particularly guilty of this and what I'm saying is that the American church is particularly guilty of this today and it's always manifested in the idea that oh we shouldn't be political and I thought to myself that's preposterous if you're against slavery and you live in the mid 19th century people will say oh you're being political just stick to the gospel well that's what Hitler said to the past is just stick to your little your little gospel I'll worry about the third right I'll worry about everything else you just worry about your little theology and that thin theological view that some Christians have of what it is to have faith is profoundly wrong it is unbiblical your theology has to be lived out it has to be integrated into every part of your life um and that's where we have drifted to this idea that people say I can be against something in my mind but I don't have to do anything about it I don't have to live out my life heroically I don't have to put my life on the line I don't have to put my career on the line if you believe these things then of course you have to put your life in your career on the line otherwise it's obvious you don't believe these things

and he wrote about it in his book The Cost of Discipleship 1937 and in that book he says that the German church had lost its grasp on the gospel he says instead of the gospel the biblical gospel the German church had come to believe in what he called cheap grace

There's a good work by Dieter Bonhoeffer. He was a German theologian who was actually put to death under the Nazis. And he wrote a book called The Cost of Discipleship.

There's a good work by Dieter Bonhoeffer. He was a German theologian who was actually put to death under the Nazis. And he wrote a book called The Cost of Discipleship.