Appreciate Value of Salvation

Washington Times ^ | February 6, 2006 | n/a

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This sermon was preached yesterday by the Rev. Terry Specht at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church.

....Sometime in the 1950s, Christians in America lost their nerve. Gradually a consensus developed that we needed a softer, gentler Christianity. Somehow, we needed to take the edge off the words of this man, Jesus. We thought that if we just repackaged Him without the demands of the Gospel; if we stripped the cross from Christianity, then maybe more people would join the church.

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This guy is a catholic? This was a good read. He takes on cheap grace in a way that you almost never hear in ANY churches.

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****God's grace is free, but it is not cheap. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian and writer, described cheap grace as "preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance. ... It is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross. Cheap grace is grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."****

I always wondered who coined that term.