Sublime

“The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine. . . . Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually.”14

So Luther says that even after you are converted by the gospel your heart will go back to operating on other principles unless you deliberately, repeatedly set it to gospel-mode.

Bonhoeffer, says Gorman, “recognizes at the end of the day that discipleship is not about imitation or even obedience to an external call or norm. It is about transformation, theosis.” He continues, “What we find in Bonhoeffer is the Eastern Christian tradition of theosis merged with a radical interpretation of discipleship expressed primarily in t

“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others” (Bonhoeffer, 1972, 382).