{"id":2878,"date":"2015-04-20T16:31:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2015-04-20T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:33:14","slug":"bonhoeffer-the-cost-of-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/bonhoeffer-the-cost-of-discipleship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started reading The Cost of Discipleship<\/em> by Dietrich Bonhoeffer today.\u00a0 I didn’t get through the introduction before I came across a great quote:<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4309-1\"<\/a>When the Bible speaks of following Jesus, it is proclaiming a discipleship which will liberate mankind from all man-made dogmas, from every burden and oppression, from every anxiety and torture which afflicts the conscience.\u00a0 If they follow Jesus, men escape from the hard yoke of their own laws, and submit to the kindly yoke of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 But does this mean that we ignore the seriousness of his commands?\u00a0 Far from it.\u00a0 We can only achieve perfect liberty and enjoy fellowship with Jesus when his command, his call to absolute discipleship, is appreciated in its entirety.\u00a0 Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, find his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way.\u00a0 The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it.\u00a0 But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looking forward to the rest!<\/p>\n

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Started reading The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer today.\u00a0 I didn’t get through the introduction before I came across a great quote: When the Bible speaks of following Jesus, it is proclaiming a discipleship which will liberate mankind from all man-made dogmas, from every burden and oppression, from every anxiety and torture which afflicts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[647,5,648],"tags":[649,142],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-Kq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2466,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/making-disciples\/","url_meta":{"origin":2878,"position":0},"title":"Making Disciples","date":"October 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The mandate for the Church is to \"go into all the world and make disciples.\" (Matthew 28:18-20).\u00a0 If we're a part of a \"church\" and not doing that, and doing it effectively, we are hard-pressed to say we are a church.\u00a0 I think that we are to do this is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Christian Living"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1486,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/jesus-follower\/","url_meta":{"origin":2878,"position":1},"title":"If you say that you’re\u2026","date":"July 20, 2011","format":"quote","excerpt":"If you say that you\u2019re a follower of Jesus, but you\u2019re not actually following Jesus, then you\u2019re not really a follower of Jesus. 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