The Cost of Discipleship
Recommended by Mike Huckabee, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #5 in Theology, Ranked #6 in Christian Theology — see more rankings.
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."... more
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Mike Huckabee This was a book that I read in college, and it influenced me in that I realised that faith that does not cost anything is what Bonhoeffer would call ‘cheap grace’. So much of American Christianity was cheap grace – fire insurance more than a call to true discipleship. It had a profound impact on me. Here was a person whose faith was not merely a belief system; rather, it was a way of life – to a point of even his own death. (Source)
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- #27 in Bible History
- #83 in Bible Study
- #23 in Christian
- #6 in Christian Leadership
- #12 in Devotion
- #24 in Devotional
- #92 in Ethics
- #17 in Faith
- #20 in God
- #51 in Grace
- #38 in History of Christianity
- #28 in Jesus
- #11 in Ministry
- #73 in Religion
- #25 in Spiritual Growth
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