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Archibaldo
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Date Joined Jul 2003
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Posted 12/22/2003 9:31 AM (GMT -6)

Graduated from college a week ago and as a gift, someone gave me Bonhoeffer's "cost of discipleship."

I've known about the book for a long time, and only had little interest in reading it. Finding it in front of me now will probably demand that i give it attention.

Many say that it portrays an unrealistic view of how to live out Christianity (reviews i've read on amazon) and that it implies much about suffering and martyrdom.

Just curious what the people on this forum think about the book.

"anything less than passion is dog crap." -Paul Hurckman

Tom
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Posted 12/22/2003 10:04 AM (GMT -6)

Read it first as a senior in High School ('78 Wink

). Changed my life then. Took grace seriously for the first time.

Read and tell us what ya think.

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fyodor
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Posted 12/23/2003 7:00 PM (GMT -6)

I'm with Tom on this one.
Read COD back in college. An understanding of costly and cheap grace according to Bon's account changed everything for me too. It was pervasive and transforming of my responsibility to Christ.

I think I gave the book away and didn't get it back, so I'm short on specific references....

†††"One rarely finds an exposition of which it holds true that the exposition is that which is expounded." – S. Kierkegaard

John Earp
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Posted 12/23/2003 7:52 PM (GMT -6)

COD is a masterpiece of modern Christian literature. Nothing too revolutionary to my mind about it, but then again, I grew up in a Holiness-Arminian (Pentecostal) tradition, that, while it may not have gone into nearly the detail and depth that Bonhoeffer did about the believer's call, very firmly emphasized that without holiness no one shall see God.

That said, Bonnie very articulately and persuasively expounds on the implications of being a true follower of Christ. A much-needed word in our day of easy believism, 101 excuses for sin, and sloppy agape.

"The Discovery of new truth will modify old views and opinions, and there is perhaps no end to this process with finite minds in any world." Charles G. Finney, Systematic Theology.

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PotOnWheel
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Posted 12/26/2003 3:45 PM (GMT -6)

ditto

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