{"id":1266,"date":"2025-09-09T22:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:02:16","slug":"the-cost-of-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/the-cost-of-discipleship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"byclass\"><strong>by Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBonhoeffer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1309\" style=\"width:281px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBonhoeffer.jpg 625w, https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBonhoeffer-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/jesusworldview.org\/resource-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBonhoeffer-94x150.jpg 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/products\/cost-of-discipleship-dietrich-bonhoeffer-9780684815008?variant=10007020994607&amp;country=US&amp;currency=USD&amp;utm_medium=product_sync&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_content=sag_organic&amp;utm_campaign=sag_organic&amp;srsltid=AfmBOopQDqC1qH8ViVPZdyMa-7M3Ohm8WrX_fZRhm2oTPPZLcWCcvISEK78\">Buy Book<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"hidedash\">&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With growing parallels to a time when many professing Christians lent their support through voice or silence to a nationalist movement of favoritism for some and deadly demonization and scapegoating of others, this monumental call to discipleship rings true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although originally published in 1937, the writings of Christian martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and minister, are timely and applicable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Cheap grace<\/em> is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate,\u201d wrote Bonhoeffer, who was executed by Nazis in 1945 at age 39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, he writes, \u201c<em>costly grace<\/em> is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a [person] must knock.Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet cheap grace continues to be dispensed and consumed in the present time when affirming selective beliefs has replaced the emphasis on following Jesus,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing from Jesus\u2019 seminal teachings known as the Sermon on the Mount, Bonhoeffer\u2019s insights and example speak clearly to what it means to be a disciple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many scholars and even family members have noted the recent misrepresentations of Bonhoeffer advanced by author and radio host Eric Metaxas. For those seeking more insight into the martyr\u2019s life, <em>A Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/em> by Charles Marsh, is recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Review by John D. 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