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The Cost of Discipleship
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, in 1906. The son of a famous German psychiatrist, he studied in Berlin and New York City. He left the safety of America to return to Germany and continue his public repudiation of the Nazis, which led to his arrest in 1943. Linked to the group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitler failed, he was hanged in April 1945. _______________ Have you received Christ as your Lord and Saviour? Find out how to do so on our page: Plan of Salvation _______________
Tell others about Jesus like Dietrich Bonhoeffer did: Though we are not all called to the ministry of a Pastor or Christian Writer, we are all called by God to share our faith (witness) with those who are not Christians. Some Bible verses that you will find helpful for doing this, and that you may want to commit to memory are found on other pages on our web site (see: Memory Verses; 2nd Set: Salvation!, Plan of Salvation, and Statement of Faith). ________________ © 1959 by SCM Press Ltd. All Rights Reserved. A Touchstone Book Published by: Simon & Schuster New York. ______________ |
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer One of the most important Theologians of the Twentieth Century Illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus. "A very moving book, lived as well as written." -Times Literary Supplement (London) What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is His will for us today? What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is His will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Costly grace is the gospel...It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship...Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know...It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." ...the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency... The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with...a creative sense of civic duty. ...convinced that it was his duty as a Christian to work for Hitler's defeat. "Among the Flossenberg martyrs was a remarkable young Lutheran pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who had joined the underground convinced that it was his duty as a Christian to work for Hitler's defeat. Bonhoeffer was only thirty-nine when he died, but he had already made a monumental contribution to Christian thought, _____________________________ |
which today has profound and growing significance for both theologian and layman. ...gaining an astonishing popularity in the secular world... Bonhoeffer's books are gaining an astonishing popularity in the secular world...He is admired by people who have read his best-known books, The Cost of Discipleship and Letters and Papers from Prison, as the example of what a modern Christian must be." (-from the Book's Back Cover.) _________________________________ The Cost of Discipleship is available to Supporters of The Prayer Foundation ™. For more information on how to obtain your own personal copy, and for a list of other Gifts available to our Supporters, go to our page: Gifts For Contributors! ______________________________ Related Pages: _____________________________ Copyright © 2004 S.G.P. All rights reserved.
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