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The Cost of Discipleship

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Narrated by: Paul Michael
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 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." "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 girl 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 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 the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.

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A lot can be learned from this, though there are a few aspects (very few) which I believe to be misguided and not sound theology.

Educational

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Is a must read for anyone who needs to know the weight of holiness. Enjoy.

Need

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A very deep and thoughtful exploration of discipleship, it connected a lot of different threads together, and helped me to better make sense of many aspects of the Christian life

Powerful and thought provoking

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Provided much needed harmonisation between faith and obedience whilst distinguishing justification and sanctification.

Challenging call for the believe to take up one’s cross but true to Christ’s gospel.

His exposition of the Sermon on the mount was helpful.

I found long chapters’ stream of thought difficult to follow and was grateful for the many small chapters

Clearly Bonhoeffer knows God and has a high view of God. His conviction in the truth of his views at times seems abrasive BUT when considering the time and atmosphere in which he wrote, and the desperation with which he clung to the Lord, it is hard to find fault. I pray God will raise up many more such men and women of faith!

Challenging read but worth while

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If you take discipleship seriously, then this book is one of the best. Biblically accurate, and because of this the living word does the rest. Very encouraging.

Captivating

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