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The Cost of Discipleship-Dietrich Bonhoeffer 做门徒的代价 – 【德】 朋霍费尔

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Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publication: New Star Press
Translator: Wei Ren Lian
Publication date: 2012-06-30
Pages: 416
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9787513304009

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and member of the Confessing Church, was born on February 4, 1906, in Breslau, Germany. During World War II, he actively participated in the struggle against the Nazis, and was later arrested by the Gestapo on April 5, 1943, because of the revelation of his plan to assassinate Hitler. On April 9, 1945, he was hanged in the concentration camp in Flosburg, and is the author of Poetry in Prison, Ethics, Life in Fellowship, Prison Briefs, The Cost of Being a Disciple, The First Adam and the Second Adam, and Life in Fellowship. — Selected Works of Penhova, among other books. The Garden of the Heart and Twenty Lectures on Faith contain some of Penhoefer’s articles.

Dr. Darren Yu has remembered Bonhoeffer in Climbing the Peaks of Life: Walking with Great Minds. If you want to know more about Bonhoeffer, we recommend you to read Renate Winder’s Stopping the Wheel of Frenzy: A Biography of Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer: Priest, Martyr, Prophet, Spy or Charles Marsh’s A Strange Glory: The Life of Bonhoeffer.

Preface G.K.A. Bell, former Bishop of Chichester, England
Biographical Sketch of the Rt. Rev. Bonhoeffer Former Bishop of Chichester, England G. Leibholtz
PREFACE

First Grace and Discipleship
 Chapter 1 Expensive Grace
 Chapter 2 The Call to Discipleship
 Chapter Three: Undivided Obedience
 Chapter 4 Discipleship and the Cross
 Chapter 5 Discipleship and Individuals

The Sermon on the Mount

 Matthew 5: On the “Transcendence” of the Christian Life

 Chapter 6: The Eightfold Blessing
 The Visible Community
 The Righteousness of Christ
 Chapter 9 Brothers
 Chapter 10: Women

 Chapter XI. Sincerity
 Chapter 12 Revenge
 Chapter 13: Love for the Enemy – “Above and Beyond” Love
 Matthew 6: On the Secrecy of the Christian Life
 Chapter 14: Hidden Righteousness
 Chapter 15: The Secrecy of Prayer

 Chapter 16: The Secrecy of Pious Living
 Chapter 17: The Simplicity of a Carefree Life
 Chapter 7: On the Independence of the Community of Disciples
 Chapter 18: The Disciple and the Unbeliever
 Chapter 19: The Great Schism
 Chapter 20 Conclusion

Chapter Three: The Messengers of the Gospel

 Chapter 21 Harvesting the Harvest

 Chapter 22 The Apostles

 Chapter 23 The Work

 Chapter 24 The Suffering of the Gospel Messengers

 Chapter 25 The Choice

 Chapter 26 Fruit

The Church of Jesus Christ and the Life of Discipleship

 Chapter 27 The Problem of Anticipation

 Chapter 28 Baptism

 Chapter 29 The Body of Christ

 Chapter 30 The Visible Community

 Chapter 31 The Saints

 Chapter 32 The Image of Christ

Subject Index

Bible Index

当《 圣经 》说到追随耶稣时,它是在宣布一种门徒身份,这种门徒身份使人类从一切人为的教义中解放出来,从一切沉重的负担和压迫下解放出来,从各种折磨良心的焦虑与痛苦中解放出来。如果人们追随耶稣,他们就会摆脱自己的律法的沉重枷锁,而顺从于耶稣基督的慈祥的轭下。但这是否意味着我们无视祂的诫命的严肃性呢?绝对不是。我们只有完全理解祂的诫命和彻底成为门徒的呼召,才能达到完全的自由,才能享受到同耶稣的团契。只有专心致志聆听耶稣的诫命、驯服地委身于祂的轭下的人,才会发现自己的负担是轻松的,并且在这轻盈的压力下得到走正道的能力。而对于那些试图对抗的人来说,耶稣的诫命是沉重的,难以形容地沉重。但是对那些情愿服从的人来说,祂的轭是容易的,负担也是轻松的。“祂的诫命不是难守的”(约壹5:3)。耶稣的诫命不是一种精神上的休克疗法(spirtual shock treatment)。如果耶稣不给我们完成诫命的力量,祂就不会要求我们做任何事情。祂的诫命从不想毁灭生命,而是要培育生命,强化和治愈生命。

但是,还有一个困扰我们的问题:耶稣呼召人们做门徒,对今天的工人、商人、农民和士兵意味着什么呢?这不是要把我们的生活分成难以容忍的两部分——尘世的劳动者的生活和基督徒的生活吗?如果基督教意味着追随耶稣,那么,它不就成为少数人的,即一些宗教精英的宗教了吗?这不意味着抛弃社会的广大群众,是对弱者和穷人的成心轻视吗?但这种态度肯定是同耶稣博大的怜悯胸怀背道而驰的,因为耶稣来到税吏和罪人、软弱和贫穷的以及那些误入迷途和失去希望的人面前。跟随耶稣的人是少数还是多数?他独自一人死在十字架上。被祂的门徒抛弃。与祂同钉十字架的不是祂的追随者,而是两个杀人犯。然而,不管是仇敌还是信徒,是怀疑者还是懦夫,是辱骂者还是忠诚的追随者,他们都站在十字架下面。当时,祂的祈祷和宽恕是为了他们所有的人,为了他们所有的罪。上帝的怜悯和爱心甚至也在祂的仇敌中发挥作用。正是这同一个耶稣基督,祂不但用祂的恩典呼召我们追随祂,而且还用祂的恩典拯救在祂临死之际在十字架上嘲笑他的杀人犯。

如果我们响应做门徒的呼召,它将把我们带到什么地方呢?它要求我们做什么样的决定和舍弃呢?要回答这些问题,我们必须走到祂面前,因为,只有祂才知道问题的答案。只有那吩咐我们追随祂的耶稣基督才知道行程的终点。但我们的确知道,那将是一条充满无限仁慈的道路。做门徒就意味着欢乐。

在当今世界上,如果要在教会决定的狭窄道路上满有把握地行走,同时又要留在基督普遍的爱、上帝对软弱者和不信神者的忍耐、怜悯及“慈爱”(多3:4)的广阔空间之中,似乎是很难的。但是,无论如何,我们必须把这两者结合起来,否则,我们将会走世人的道路。但愿在我们认真地沿着做门徒的道路前进时,上帝会赐给我们欢乐。但愿我们能够对罪说“不”,对罪人说“是”。但愿我们能够抗拒仇敌,而把追求并赢得人的灵魂的福音话语传给他们。“凡劳苦担重担的人,可以到我这里来,我就使你们得安息。我心里柔和谦卑,你们当负我的轭,学我的样式,这样,你们心里就必得享安息。因为我的轭是容易的,我的担子是轻省的。”(太11:28以下)

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