If at this moment each one of you were asked to state in one sentence or phrase the most distinguishing feature of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, what would be your answer? If at this moment each one of you were asked to state in one sentence or phrase the most distinguishing feature of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, what would be your answer? Divine authority by direct revelation. Divine authority by direct revelation.

Lutheran Minister – Dietrich Bonhoeffer Cheap grace, the grace which amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and from whom sin departs... Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace, the grace which amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and from whom sin departs... Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship. The only man who has a right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. The only man who has a right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

We Lutherans have gathered like eagles round the carcase of cheap grace, and there we have drunk of the poison which has killed the life of following Christ. We Lutherans have gathered like eagles round the carcase of cheap grace, and there we have drunk of the poison which has killed the life of following Christ. The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works. The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes... For faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.... For faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.