To digest the Savior’s bread…
- Focus on His _______________, not your ___________________.(vv.1-11)
- Look for spiritual _____________, not material _______________.(vv.22-35)
- Choose to give ___ ______, or simply ________ ___________.(vv.48-51, 60-66)
“Cheap grace 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.”
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship)
“We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.”
(Vance Havner, 20th century pastor/teacher)
“Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.”
(Luke 9:23-24)