Costly Grace
In a devotional at BYU, Elder Jörg Klebingat spoke about the atonement of Jesus Christ. He said this, “Let’s not forget, my dear friends, that the Savior is less upset over our sins and shortcomings than He is over our seeming indifference to do something about them in the right way. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident, taught: ‘Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, . . . [forgiveness] without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.’ Bonhoeffer described ‘cheap grace’ as ‘grace without price; grace without cost!’ Next, he contrasted cheap grace with costly grace’: ‘Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow . . . Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man th...