We're going to discuss how choosing not to pay the high price of discipleship will ultimately

cost us the abundant life Jesus promises in John 10-10.

Christianity isn't a spectator sport, y'all.

It's participatory and actionable and sometimes even downright dangerous, leaving believers

with bloody expectations and bruised hearts.

Our Savior wasn't being hyperbolic when He said, in this world, you will have trouble.

But Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who is perhaps the most prolific of leaders when it came to

preaching and modeling the willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of Christ, exemplified

the but-take heart because I have overcome the world part of Jesus' proclamation when

He preached these words right before He was hanged in 1945 as a result of His faith in God

and passionate opposition to the Nazi regime.

Bonhoeffer preached this right before His death.

This is the end for me, the beginning of life.

Today's conversation might just be both convicting and compelling.

So please grab a cup of coffee in your Bible unless you're driving or making balloon

animals, of course, and come hang out on the porch with us.

Hey y'all, welcome back to Back Porch Theology.

You know, we want to take a minute.

Those in the room today too, from Ring My Bell and Allie, my sister from another

mister.

And we just all three of us want to say thank you so much for choosing to bring us along

in your car or on the elliptical for carving out that time in your day where you come

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