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Title: The Cost of Discipleship
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| The Cost of Discipleship by Touchstone skipping? | | If you're looking to skip out on reading the real book, this is for you. But I recommend reading the real thing, not the short notes. | | The Cost of Discipleship by Touchstone Good book! | | What I've read so far is pretty good. A little redundant at times, but good. | | The Cost of Discipleship by Touchstone We are all God's disciples who follow Christ | Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a humble Christian pastor who was hanged by the Nazis near the end of the war. This was written in the late thirties, and is directed towards all Christians, not just pastors; for we are all God's disciples who follow Christ. We follow along with the original disciples; teaching us how to live a life of obedience and discard the self. Sermon like; he brings about ways of reading the scriptures to a new level of understanding. I can't state the importance of this book enough.
The book begins with a memoir by G. Leibholz: Bonhoeffer did not take the pacifist line, he felt it was our duty as Christians to oppose tyranny; the liberalized church didn't think so. "Thus Bonhoeffer's life and death have given us great hope for the future. He has set a model for a new type of true leadership inspired by the gospel, daily ready for martyrdom and death and imbued by a new spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty. The victory which he has won was a victory for us all, a conquest never to be undone, of love, light and liberty."
Bonhoeffer points to: Christ is the cost----the church has only succeeded in cheapening it; as disciples we have no special powers on others, only Christ has the ability, for "the word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works." And he says, "How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away form him? The man who disobeys cannot believe, for only he who obeys can believe", or only those who believe obey, and only those who obey believe. Powerful are his words on Christ's fulfillment of the commandments (sermon on the mount), for we are to hear the word and obey the will of Christ----it is the same now as it was then. Is it not shameful that so many German pastors did not read or hear Dietrich's words, for if they did, they did not listen.
Are we not all commanded to follow Him?, not just the select few; are you? We would give our life for our child, would you give it for Christ (even first)? Ask yourself: do you, or have you, endured persecution and or suffering because of your faith?----you should. What will it be: nature, the state, the self, or Christ? A little of each?; we cannot serve two masters. "Indeed it is wrong to speak of the Christian life: we should speak rather of Christ living in us"
Wish you well
Scott
| | The Cost of Discipleship by Touchstone Lays Down The Gauntlet | Bonhoeffer was a real-life hero. He was a modern-day martyr.
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'Salvation thru following Jesus is not something we men can achieve for ourselves - but with God all things are possible.' pg 85
'For with God nothing shall be impossible.' Luke 1:37
The original Greek reads:
'None of God's word shall be without dynamic.' | | The Cost of Discipleship by Touchstone A book to be read more than once | | I have just finished reading "The Cost of Discipleship" for the third time. It seems I pick it up about once a decade. I found it as convicting this last time as I did the first time. If Bonhoeffer wrote this in the midst of a church culture that was making room for the rise of Nazism, it makes one wonder what lies ahead for our own culture. In an age in which so-called Christianity has grown progressively more self-centered - from the prosperity gospel to the free grace movement which requires no change in the individual - "The Cost of Discipleship" is a book that should be revisited often and thoroughly digested upon each visit. | | The Cost of Discipleship by Touchstone Product Description | | One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus 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. | | The Cost of Discipleship by Touchstone Amazon.com | | "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." With these words, in The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave powerful voice to the millions of Christians who believe personal sacrifice is an essential component of faith. Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian, was an exemplar of sacrificial faith: he opposed the Nazis from the first and was eventually imprisoned in Buchenwald and hung by the Gestapo in 1945. The Cost of Discipleship, first published in German in 1937, was Bonhoeffer's answer to the questions, "What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us to-day?" Bonhoeffer's answers are rooted in Lutheran grace and derived from Christian scripture (almost a third of the book consists of an extended meditation on the Sermon on the Mount). The book builds to a stunning conclusion: its closing chapter, "The Image of Christ," describes the believer's spiritual life as participation in Christ's incarnation, with a rare and epigrammatic confidence: "Through fellowship and communion with the incarnate Lord," Bonhoeffer writes, "we recover our true humanity, and at the same time we are delivered from that individualism which is the consequence of sin, and retrieve our solidarity with the whole human race." --Michael Joseph Gross |
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