"[It] is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
Cheap grace misunderstands the nature of faith. The claim is that one can possess saving faith without demonstrating any life-change. Yet, it absurd to speak of an unfaithful faith. Faith demands faithfulness. The seed of faith necessarily produces the fruit of repentance.
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