DIETRICH BONHOEFFER QUOTES: 1. “Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” 2. “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” 3. “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.” 4. Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. 5. “Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.” 6. “God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility... this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.” 7. “The first service one owes to others in a community involves listening to them. Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for others is learning to listen to them. God’s love for us is shown by the fact that God not only gives God’s Word, but also lends us God’s ear.  . . . We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them." 8. "May we be enabled to say 'No' to sin and 'Yes' to the sinner.”  9. “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”  10. "In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. . . . The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought that takes success for its standard.” 11. “The community of the saints is not an 'ideal' community consisting of perfect and sinless men and women, where there is no need of further repentance. No, it is a community which proves that it is worthy of the gospel of forgiveness by constantly and sincerely proclaiming God's forgiveness. ”   12. The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them. 13. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”  14. “One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.”  15. “When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.” 16. Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and.

1. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER QUOTES:
1. “Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity
without Christ.”
2. “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
3. “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.”
4. Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and
again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man
must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow,
and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is
costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it
gives a man the only true life.
5. “Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are
fighting today for costly grace.”
6. “God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal
human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but
the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to
God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility... this is
for God the ground of unfathomable love.”
7. “The first service one owes to others in a community
involves listening to them. Just as our love for God begins with
listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for others is
learning to listen to them. God’s love for us is shown by the
fact that God not only gives God’s Word, but also lends us
God’s ear. . . . We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters
when we learn to listen to them."
8. "May we be enabled to say 'No' to sin and 'Yes' to the
sinner.”
9. “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by
God.”

2. 10. "In a world where success is the measure and justification of
all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified
remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. . . . The
figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought that takes success
for its standard.”
11. “The community of the saints is not an 'ideal' community
consisting of perfect and sinless men and women, where there is
no need of further repentance. No, it is a community which
proves that it is worthy of the gospel of forgiveness by
constantly and sincerely proclaiming God's forgiveness. ”
12. The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship
consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with
listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers
and sisters is learning to listen to them.
13. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold
us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
14. “One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.”
15. “When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not
an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon
against the flesh.”
16. Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than
about courageously and actively doing God's will.
17. “The Church is the Church only when it exists for others . . .
not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of
every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for
others.”
18. “We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the
ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. How can God
entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from
Him the little things?"
19. Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is
axiomatic. Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it. Trust to
the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity.
20. “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world
that it leaves to its children.”
21. “It is only because he became like us that we can become

3. like him.”
22. “I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray,
no matter how much trouble he causes me.”
23. “God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.”
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER- 1906-1945
"Cheap grace is preaching 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."
"The time is fulfilled for the German people of Hitler. It is
because of Hitler that Christ, God the helper and redeemer, has
become effective among us. … Hitler is the way of the Spirit
and the will of God for the German people to enter the Church
of Christ." So spoke German pastor Hermann Gruner. Another
pastor put it more succinctly: "Christ has come to us through
Adolph Hitler."
So despondent had been the German people after the defeat of
World War I and the subsequent economic depression that the
charismatic Hitler appeared to be the nation's answer to
prayer—at least to most Germans. One exception was
theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was determined not only to
refute this idea but also to topple Hitler, even if it meant killing
him.
From pacifist to co-conspirator
Bonhoeffer was not raised in a particularly radical environment.
He was born into an aristocratic family. His mother was
daughter of the preacher at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and
his father was a prominent neurologist and professor of
psychiatry at the University of Berlin.
All eight children were raised in a liberal, nominally religious
environment and were encouraged to dabble in great literature

4. and the fine arts. Bonhoeffer's skill at the piano, in fact, led
some in his family to believe he was headed for a career in
music. When at age 14, Dietrich announced he intended to
become a minister and theologian, the family was not pleased.
1885
Wellhausen's documentary hypothesis
1886
Student Volunteer Movement begins
1895
Freud publishes first work on psychoanalysis
1906
Dietrich Bonhoeffer born
1945
Dietrich Bonhoeffer dies
1951
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison
Bonhoeffer graduated from the University of Berlin in 1927, at
age 21, and then spent some months in Spain as an assistant
pastor to a German congregation. Then it was back to Germany
to write a dissertation, which would grant him the right to a
university appointment. He then spent a year in America, at
New York's Union Theological Seminary, before returning to
the post of lecturer at the University of Berlin.
During these years, Hitler rose in power, becoming chancellor
of Germany in January 1933, and president a year and a half
later. Hitler's anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions intensified—as
did his opposition, which included the likes of theologian Karl
Barth, pastor Martin Niemoller, and the young Bonhoeffer.
Together with other pastors and theologians, they organized the
Confessing Church, which announced publicly in its Barmen
Declaration (1934) its allegiance first to Jesus Christ: "We
repudiate the false teaching that the church can and must
recognize yet other happenings and powers, personalities and
truths as divine revelation alongside this one Word of God. … "
In the meantime, Bonhoeffer had written The Cost of

5. Discipleship (1937), a call to more faithful and radical
obedience to Christ and a severe rebuke of comfortable
Christianity: "Cheap grace is preaching 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."
During this time, Bonhoeffer was teaching pastors in an
underground seminary, Finkenwalde (the government had
banned him from teaching openly). But after the seminary was
discovered and closed, the Confessing Church became
increasingly reluctant to speak out against Hitler, and moral
opposition proved increasingly ineffective, so Bonhoeffer began
to change his strategy. To this point he had been a pacifist, and
he had tried to oppose the Nazis through religious action and
moral persuasion.
Now he signed up with the German secret service (to serve as a
double agent—while traveling to church conferences over
Europe, he was supposed to be collecting information about the
places he visited, but he was, instead, trying to help Jews
escape Nazi oppression). Bonhoeffer also became a part of a
plot to overthrow, and later to assassinate, Hitler.
As his tactics were changing, he had gone to America to become
a guest lecturer. But he couldn't shake a feeling of
responsibility for his country. Within months of his arrival, he
wrote theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "I have made a mistake in
coming to America. I must live through this difficult period in
our national history with the Christian people of Germany. I
will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of
Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the
trials of this time with my people."
Bonhoeffer, though privy to various plots on Hitler's life, was
never at the center of the plans. Eventually his resistance efforts
(mainly his role in rescuing Jews) was discovered. On an April
afternoon in 1943, two men arrived in a black Mercedes, put
Bonhoeffer in the car, and drove him to Tegel prison.

6. Radical reflections
Bonhoeffer spent two years in prison, corresponding with
family and friends, pastoring fellow prisoners, and reflecting on
the meaning of "Jesus Christ for today." As the months
progressed, be began outlining a new theology, penning
enigmatic lines that had been inspired by his reflections on the
nature of Christian action in history.
"God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross,"
he wrote. "He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is
precisely the way, the only way, in which he is with us and
helps us. [The Bible] … makes quite clear that Christ helps us,
not by virtue of his omnipotence, but by virtue of his weakness
and suffering. … The Bible directs man to God's powerlessness
and suffering; only the suffering God can help."
In another passage, he said, "To be a Christian does not mean to
be religious in a particular way, to make something of oneself
(a sinner, a penitent, or a saint) on the basis of some method or
other, but to be a man—not a type of man, but the man that
Christ creates in us. It is not the religious act that makes the
Christian, but participation in the sufferings of God in the
secular life."
Eventually, Bonhoeffer was transferred from Tegel to
Buchenwald and then to the extermination camp at Flossenbürg.
On April 9, 1945, one month before Germany surrendered, he
was hanged with six other resisters.
VIEW/PRACTICE
1. TRADITIONAL
2. ATTRACTIONAL
3. HYBRID
4. ORGANIC
1. CHURCH STRUCTURE
Single Pastor/ Deacon led or Congregation led
Single Elder
Single Elder with deacons or Elder board

7. Multiple Elders
2. CHURCH LOCATION
Building
Building
1, 2 and 4 but building focused
Incarnational lived out in the community
3. COMPLEXITY
Simple
Complex
Extremely Complex
Simple
4. EVANGELISM
If at all - “Soul Winning”
“Come and See” or “Invest and Invite”
Mainly “come and see”
“Relational missional groups”
5. DISCIPLESHIP
From the pulpit-Hearing
Classes- curriculum driven: learning
1 and 2
Mainly Small Groups- learning & mentoring
6. SMALL GROUPS
No small groups
“Of” small groups
“With” and “Of” small groups
“Is” small groups
7. CHANGE ATTITUDE
Change is not needed: Resistant
Change is accepted b/c of evangelism
Change is tolerated but not well received
Change is constant due to missional living
8. SPIRITUAL FORMATION
If happens… happens at church
Attender’s encouraged to become a self feeder
Both personal and community
Intentional mentoring in community

8. 9. GIFTS
Not needed
Outward gifts needed
Needed for the programs
All gifts needed
10. PREACHING
For the congregation
Toward the Seeker
1, 2 and 4 but light
For the believer
11. GROWTH ENGINE-
What drives the church? Or How is success measured?
Maintenance/ Survival
Evangelism
Activity
Mission/ Discipleship
12. BUDGET
Limited for the Preacher
Support the staff, property and buildings
2 and 4 and complex
Aimed toward the mission
13. WORSHIP
On Sunday morning
On Sunday morning
2 and 4 but mainly Sunday focused
Through the people in the community
14. PRAYER
At the church
Personal
Personal
Body life
15. LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY
Co-dependent leader- the people need me to minister to and for
them
Hierarchical- the people are there to accomplish the leader’s
goals

9. Understands equipping leadership but manages a complex
organization
Equipping leadership- to develop the people to reach their full
potential
16. LEADERSHIP Development
No leaders developed
Leaders developed for the programs
2 and 4 but limited
Disciples developed, leaders emerge for the mission
17. Sr. PASTOR
“Preacher”
Charismatic C.E.O
Multi-talented
Equipper/ Teacher
18. STAFF
Limited staff
Paid staff to run the Sunday programs
Extensive paid staff
Can be paid, but also bi-vocational
19. SAINTS ROLE
Watch and Pay
Watch and cheer
Watch, pay, cheer, and limited involvement
Involved and active
20. SAINTS ATTITUDE
“Watcher”
“Consumer”
1, 2 and 4 but limited
“Kingdom Citizen”
21. TRAINING
No training
To run the programs
2 and 4 but divided
To lead the missional groups
22. PERSONAL GOAL
Be Faithful

10. Meet my needs
Both emphasized, but the default is meet my needs
Fulfill my role in the mission
23. MISSIONS
Foreign missions board
Local (satellites) International
Local, (satellites) and international
Local, national and international through church planting
24. MULTIPLICATION
Not Applicable
Addition b/c of leadership philosophy
Addition b/c of leadership philosophy
Multiplication oriented
25. CHURCH PLANTING
Not Applicable
Add satellites/ campuses
2 and 4 but limited
Multiply Churches
DSMN 500
Lecture Notes: Creating a Discipling Culture
1. Determine the key passages (Vision).
2. Extract the core principles (Values).
3. Define your terms (Views).
a. Church
b. Pastor
c. Saints
d. Gospel
e. Evangelism
f. Disciple/Discipleship
g. Leader/Leadership
4. Decide on your structure (Vehicles).
a. Church structure (Traditional/Attractional/Hybrid/Organic)
b. Group system (A church… “with” groups, “of” groups, or
“is” groups)

11. 5. Describe what success looks like (Verifiers).
Existing church:
1. Recruit core team
2. Train team
a. Initial agreement
b. Ongoing accountability
3. Change the language
4. Lead by example
5. Show and share the gospel
6. Begin new missional groups (pray/win/grow/send)
7. Gather the groups (teach)
8. Stop doing things or DNR
9. Handle criticism
10. Be patient
11. Continue 1–7
12. Make the change, be the change, or be changed
(compromise)
New church:
1. Recruit core team
2. Train team
a. Initial agreement
b. Ongoing accountability
3. Create the language
4. Lead by example
5. Show and share the gospel
6. Begin new missional groups (pray/win/grow/send)
7. Gather the groups (teach)
8. Reward the right behavior
9. Mentor leaders
10. Multiply groups
11. Release new leaders

12. 12. Plant new works