NO CHEAP GRACE

"For by grace you have been saved by faith…" (Ephesians 2:8)

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace... Cheap grace means a grace of doctrine, a principle, a system... Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner... Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship


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