Cheap Grace - The Secret of the Gospel of the Reformation

To Luther as the other reformers justifying grace was costly grace. To Bonhoeffer again, it was grace or it was like water on parched ground,. Freedom from the bondage of a self-chosen way and forgiveness of all Luther's sins. And it was costly for so far from dispensing him from good works, it meant that he must take the call to discipleship more seriously than ever before. That was the secret of the gospel of the Reformation, the justification of the sinner.