Big Idea: Followers of Jesus should be willing to give up their rights so that others might be blessed and encounter Him.
Application:
- How might you be able to sacrifice a privilege or right for the sake of someone else today, tomorrow, or this week?
“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate".
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Which grace do you rely on each day, “cheap grace” as Bonhoeffer would say, or the grace Jesus offers? Have you counted the cost?
- What might you need to make space for to live with Christ’s invitation of a life lived out in the eternal promise to know God?
