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The call to discipleship

Dan

I am working my way through Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book, Discipleship, and I am challenged once again by the simplicity of the call to Jesus.

Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Not the idea of Christ. Not the doctrine of Christ. Christ himself.

Christianity without the living Jesus Christ remains necessarily a Christianity without discipleship; and a Christianity without discipleship is always a Christianity without Jesus Christ. It is an idea, a myth. (p. 59)

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  1. Majik Avatar
    Majik

    Everybody likes to lionize Dietrich Bonhoeffer, but nobody wants to die like him, an avowed pacifist hung with piano wire in a concentration camp for conspiring to assassinate Adolph Hitler upon Hitler’s personal orders mere weeks away from liberation and all because he with his co-conspirators were trying to save Europe’s Jews from extermination. There’s your “cost of discipleship,” huh?

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