cheap grace...
deitrich bonhoeffer coined the term...
he wrote about it this way...
"Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."
God calls us to something far deeper than cheap grace.
romans 8:38-39 says:
"For i am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
in the wake of those words, how can we not wake up to an understanding of grace that is far deeper than cheap.
we must encounter God's true grace...and the outpouring result will be 1 Peter 4...
"Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms."
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