Stand Against the Heresy of Cheap Grace

• Some heirs of the Reformation commit the heresy of cheap grace when they treat salvation as an instant heavenly passport triggered merely by:

1. Baptismal Regeneration, or

2. Birth into the Covenantal Community, or

3. Flippant Human Decision

• Justification by grace alone must issue forth in Christian Discipleship or it is merely Cheap Grace. You must be born again (i.e., regenerated).

 • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
– In his famous book, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer warned against the twin problems of works-righteousness and cheap grace.
– When God calls a man, He bids him come and die.
– The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

• Karl Barth
– There is no grace without the lordship and claim of grace.

• Malcolm Yarnell
– Vocatio indicates not only the gracious divine call to salvation, but also the gracious divine command to service.