DOWNLOAD JULY BOOK OF THE MONTH (The Cost of Discipleship) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
BOOK OF THE MONTH DOWNLOAD Bonhoeffer argues that as Christianity spread, the Church became more "secularised", accommodating the demands of obedience to Jesus to the requirements of society. In this way, "the world was Christianised, and grace became its common property." But the hazard of this was that the gospel was cheapened, and obedience to the living Christ was gradually lost beneath formula and ritual, so that in the end, grace could literally be sold for monetary gain.