“Is the price that we are paying today with the collapse of the organized churches anything else but an inevitable consequence of grace acquired too cheaply?

We gave away preaching & sacraments cheaply; we performed baptisms & confirmations; we absolved an entire people unquestioned & unconditionally; out of human love we handed over what was holy to the scornful & unbelievers.

We poured out rivers of grace without end but the call to rigorously follow Christ was seldom heard.”

These are the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer – how prescient of him! We have sold ourselves down the river as evangelicals by dispensing a grace that we have cheapened. We are reaping the harvest. Countless souls shall be lost but we persuaded them that we were right. It is time to return to the cost of being a true disciple.