Cheap Grace or Hyper Grace?

Here is how the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (martyred near the end of Hitler’s regime) defined “Cheap Grace” in his classic book, The Cost of Discipleship (1937): 

—Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance

—Baptism without church discipline

—Communion without confession

—Forgiveness without having to repent of grossly immoral behavior

—Cheap grace is grace without discipleship

—Grace without the cross

—Grace without Jesus Christ

—Grace, dying to one’s self, and letting Christ live in them

—Cheap grace is the notion that “You can stay as you are and enjoy the consolations of forgiveness.”