By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. Bonhoeffers 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. And with that sharp warning to his own church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official nazified state. The cost of discipleship is a dense and powerful book about the true cost of being a disciple of christ.
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In it he declares, when christ calls a man, he bids him come. Unlike a lot of modern theological books that are written by people sitting in air conditioned offices that have never paid a price for their belief in jesus, this book. This book is the answer to that question and many more. The cost of discipleship by dietrich bonhoeffer, 9780684815008, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The cost of discipleship is a book by the german theologian dietrich bonhoeffer, considered a classic of christian thought. The cost of discipleship quotes by dietrich bonhoeffer.
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