Over the past two years I’ve learned a significant amount of things regarding my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I’ve learned that, at times, my faith wasn’t strong enough; that I needed to pray to Jesus for help to increase my faith, and also the magnitude of faith when it pertains to Christianity. In his document, Discipleship and the Cross, Dietrich Bonhoeffer examines the Christian faith in this aspect. He goes on then to offer a detailed description of what he believes it one’s faith should embody. In this article, there were positively some brilliant declarations that Bonhoeffer disclosed that genuinely line up with my thoughts on Christian faith. In the duration of this paper, I would like to explore those ideas and compare them to my Christian beliefs.
The first passage that I would like discuss would be …show more content…
“The opposite of discipleship is to be ashamed of Christ and his cross and all the offence which the cross brings in its train .” Fundamentally feeling ashamed means to be embarrassed by feelings of guilt; but no one should ever be humiliated for the astonishing miracle God performed through His Son on that old rugged cross. The Apostle Paul shamelessly calls out in the Book of Romans, Chapter 1 Verse 16, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes...” No believer of Jesus Christ should ever be humiliated for the sake of His superb sacrifice which saved the entire world; instead they should go to the ends of the earth making believers of all kinds so that all men may be reconciled to the Creator. My faith is based on those ethics; that the cross has been laid on me, I have released everything of the world which holds me back from him, I will suffer daily as Christ suffered, and I will not be ashamed of the Gospel of
The first passage that I would like discuss would be …show more content…
“The opposite of discipleship is to be ashamed of Christ and his cross and all the offence which the cross brings in its train .” Fundamentally feeling ashamed means to be embarrassed by feelings of guilt; but no one should ever be humiliated for the astonishing miracle God performed through His Son on that old rugged cross. The Apostle Paul shamelessly calls out in the Book of Romans, Chapter 1 Verse 16, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes...” No believer of Jesus Christ should ever be humiliated for the sake of His superb sacrifice which saved the entire world; instead they should go to the ends of the earth making believers of all kinds so that all men may be reconciled to the Creator. My faith is based on those ethics; that the cross has been laid on me, I have released everything of the world which holds me back from him, I will suffer daily as Christ suffered, and I will not be ashamed of the Gospel of