In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned the words, "Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate" (1959:47)...
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To answer the question, What does God want of us? on John's terms, we also have to answer the question, What do we owe each other? Although response to God is a personal matter, it is not merely a private or internal matter...
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In some worship services, the congregation repeats the words of one of the creeds or confes sions of the church on a regular basis...
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"In the world, but not of it"--this is a phrase commonly used to characterize the Christian's relationship to the world...
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Now and again a story ap pears in the news about the passing of counterfeit money...
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We come first to a section on the privileges of the children of God...
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One can hardly dispute that the ways in which Christians speak about their understanding of and relationship to God strike non-Christians as ludicrous at best and arrogant at worst...
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