NEW FOREWORD BY ERIC METAXAS. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic work explores living as a Christian, contrasting "cheap grace" with "costly grace" and emphasizing discipleship and sacrifice. NEW FOREWORD BY ERIC METAXAS Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic book on living as a Christian.What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the government worker? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty. ContentsForeword by Bishop G. K. A. BellMemoir by G. LeibholzIntroductionI GRACE AND DISCIPLESHIP1 Costly Grace2 The Call to Discipleship3 Single-Minded Obedience4 Discipleship and the Cross5 Discipleship and the IndividualII THE SERMON ON THE MOUNTMatthew 5: Of the "Extraordinariness" of the Christian Life6 The Beatitudes7 The Visible Community8 The Righteousness of Christ9 The Brother10 Woman11 Truthfulness12 Revenge13 The Enemy -- the "Extraordinary"Matthew 6: Of the Hidden Character of the Christian Life14 The Hidden Righteousness15 The Hiddenness of Prayer16 The Hiddenness of the Devout Life17 The Simplicity of the Carefree LifeMatthew 7: The Separation of the Disciple Community18 The Disciple and Unbelievers19 The Great Divide20 The ConclusionIII THE MESSENGERS21 The Harvest22 The Apostles23 The Work24 The Suffering of the Messengers25 The Decision26 The FruitIV THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE LIFE OF DISCIPLESHIP27 Preliminary Questions28 Baptism29 The Body of Christ30 The Visible Community31 The Saints32 The Image of ChristIndex of SubjectsIndex of Biblical References