Cheap Grace
Oh, if I could release the thoughts that, like butterflies, scatter through my mind. They are difficult to coral and share. Some of them concern a movie I viewed last Sunday. Not to be presumptuous, but I am coming to feel an affinity with the oracles of the Living Gods. Many have descended from Mount Sinai, having conversed with the Gods, only to see the people worshipping the golden calf. It was Angel Studio's "Bonhoeffer." Afterward, I went for a long drive through Bear Lake to review Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Cost Of Discipleship on my audible recording." I pray God would offer me the words to express my love for my wife and children as I desire to lead them to Christ. ""Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves . . . the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship. . . . "Costly grace is the gospel which must be sou...
