SCHEDULE THE MAY 14 Grace & Disciplship Foreword, Introduction, COST OF Chapters 1 & 2 DISCIPLESHIP MAY 21 Grace & Discipleship Chapters 3 - 5

MAY 28 Chapters 6 - 9

JUNE 4 no class

JUNE 11 Sermon on the Mount Chapters 10 - 13

JUNE 18 Sermon on the Mount Chapters 14 - 17

JUNE 25 Sermon on the Mount Chapters 18 - 20

JULY 2 The Messengers Chapters 21 - 23

JULY 9 The Messengers Chapters 24 - 26

JULY 16 The and the Life of Discipleship Chapters 27 - 29 A summer reading group JULY 23 The Church and the Life discussing one of the most of Discipleship important works of modern Chapters 30 - 31 , The Cost of JULY 30 Counting the Cost : FIRST UNITED Discipleship, by Dietrich Conclusions & METHODIST CHURCH Bonhoeffer starting May 13, 2014 Commitments 1215 East Gibbon Street, Laramie Wyoming 82072 (307) 742-8121 laramieumc.com THE COST OF IS GRACE REALLY FREE? DISCIPLESHIP Reading Group will meet COME LEARN THE COST Wednesdays, 6:30 to 8 pm in the FUMC Library OF DISCIPLESHIP. starting May 14 (see schedule) “Costly grace is the which must be sought again and 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 Christ. It is costly because it costs a man REGISTRATION his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace (please return to church office or fill out because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: 'Ye were bought at a online at laramieumc.com/#/ price', and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his connectcaregrow/cost-of-discipleship) Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.” NAME: ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

PHONE #: ABOUT THE AUTHOR: was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident and a founding member of the . On April 9, 1945, he became something more… a witness to the radical nature of the costly grace he called all EMAIL: the followers of Jesus to live by.

ABOUT THE BOOK: BOOKS: I need a book ordered for me ($10/ What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today book) to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the I will get my own copy / I have a copy Mount, Bonhoeffer answers these questions by providing a seminal reading of the already. dichotomy between “cheap grace” and “costly grace.” Costly grace is the gospel CHILDCARE: which must be sought again and again. I need childcare provided. ABOUT OUR GROUP: This group is for the person who has followed Jesus all their life or for the person inquiring about what it might mean to be a Christian. All that is required is to be willing to engage in open and deep discussion and to respect the image of God in each, even those with whom we disagree.