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Bonhoeffer in his book discipleship famously challenged the concept of cheap grace. He communicates the idea of how Christians have relied too much on Christ's forgiveness that they do not challenge themselves enough in actually following his word to their best ability instead relying on God's grace to catch them when they fall. We are instructed to strive to follow his word and when we fail anyway, God's grace comes into play. Cheap grace Bonhoeffer explains is a forgetting to strive in knowing that God's grace is there anyway. Bonhoeffer says this about cheep grace, "Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves, it is not a gift of God. Cheap grace is baptism without church discipline, it is communion without confession, it is “grace” without the cross". Following off this idea, in discipleship he also famously talked about the idea of simple obedience. He admonishes Christians who think too much that God could not possibly have meant what he said when he commands us to do things such as telling the rich man to leave all that he has and follow him. Bonhoeffer says that God says exactly what he means when he says to leave everything and follow him and other interpretations are just us trying to get out of this. He famously quotes that "only the obedient believe and only those who believe are obedient.