Costly Grace Press
A 30-Day Bonhoeffer-Based Audit

You have believed for decades.But has your faith cost you anything real?

A 30-day self-assessment for long-time Christians who are tired of going through the motions — and ready to examine whether their faith has become cheap, hollow, or costly.

You have attended. Prayed. Given. Served. Raised children in the faith. By every external measure, your faith is not in question. And yet, somewhere in the quiet hours, a question may have followed you: Was any of it ever real?

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§Based on Bonhoeffer's published works: Discipleship, Life Together, Letters and Papers from Prison, and Ethics.
§Educational and reflective. Not therapy. Not pastoral counseling. Not shallow inspiration.
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"Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Costly grace is the grace which must be sought again and again."— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship (1937)

The Quiet Suspicion

You can do the Christian things for decades and still feel strangely untested.

You know when to stand. When to sit. Which hymns lift the room and which fall flat. You have prayed at hospital beds and folding tables. You have given, sometimes generously, sometimes reluctantly. You have raised children inside a faith you hoped they would keep.

And still — in the quiet hours — a suspicion keeps its own hours. That your prayer has grown routine. That your worship has become well-executed. That the words are right, the music is right, the apparatus is right, until it is tested. That the motions continue perfectly, and no one is home.

Cheap grace does not feel cheap while you are receiving it. That is what makes it cheap.

The Cost of Not Examining

What remains unexamined becomes normal.

The danger is not that you stop believing. Most who drift do not. The danger is that you keep believing in a way that never disturbs, interrupts, exposes, or changes you. If a faith costs nothing for long enough, it stops feeling like it should cost anything at all.

  • More years of routine without encounter.
  • More guilt over your children without clarity.
  • More prayer without address.
  • More attendance without presence.
  • More fear of death without honest examination.
  • More Christian identity without costly discipleship.

This is not another devotional.It is an audit.

A devotional comforts. An audit examines. This workbook does not ask whether you can consume more Christian content. It asks what following Christ actually costs you — in your practice, your relationships, your inheritance, your convictions, your end, and your decisions.

An ordinary devotional
  • · Begins with comfort
  • · Speaks in generalities
  • · Asks how you feel
  • · Ends with reassurance
The Cheap Grace Audit
  • · Begins with examination
  • · Names concrete domains
  • · Asks what it cost
  • · Ends with a verdict
The Method

The P.R.I.C.E.D. Audit

Cheap grace hides in abstraction. If someone asks, "Is my faith real?" the answer will remain vague forever. The P.R.I.C.E.D. Audit removes vagueness by examining your faith across six concrete domains of an actual Christian life.

  1. PWeek 1

    Practice

    Habit or encounter?

    Are your routines of worship, prayer, and Scripture carrying you toward God — or have they become quiet destinations in themselves?

  2. RWeek 2

    Relationships

    Presence or coexistence?

    In your marriage, family, and congregation, do you truly meet the people in front of you, or share a roof with them?

  3. IWeek 3

    Inheritance

    What did you hand on?

    What kind of faith did your children actually see — the words you spoke, or the life they observed when no one was watching?

  4. CWeek 4

    Convictions

    Friction or camouflage?

    Where your faith meets the surrounding culture, does it create friction — or has it quietly learned to blend in?

  5. EWeek 5

    End

    Can it face the worst?

    Can your faith face death, legacy, and finitude honestly, without sentimental language or borrowed comfort?

  6. DWeek 6

    Decisions

    What did it cost this week?

    The final measure. Not what you believed. Not what you sang. What did following Christ actually cost you this week?

Each week ends with a Weekly Verdict. Day 30 assembles all six verdicts into a final picture — and one concrete next step.

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The Workbook

A 30-day, six-domain examination of your faith's real cost.

The Cheap Grace Self-Assessment is a reflective workbook, not a page-turner. It is designed for the desk, the pew, and the quiet chair by the window — for fifteen to twenty-five minutes a day, for thirty consecutive days.

  • 30 daily entries, structured for honest reflection
  • Six weekly domains, each with its own verdict
  • Bonhoeffer-sourced daily passages, in plain language
  • Diagnostic writing prompts, not motivational quotes
  • A final Day 30 verdict — and one concrete next step
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What Changes in 30 Days

From decades of religious motion to an honest reckoning.

  • 01Name the spiritual dryness you have been afraid to confess.
  • 02Distinguish religious habit from real encounter with God.
  • 03See whether your closest relationships reveal costly grace.
  • 04Understand what kind of faith your children actually inherited.
  • 05Test whether your convictions create friction — or camouflage.
  • 06Face death, legacy, and finitude without sentimental language.
  • 07End the 30 days with one concrete next step, not vague inspiration.
A Sample Day

See how one day actually works.

Day 03 · Practice

The Motions

Week I · P — Practice
I · The Observation

"The motions continue perfectly, and no one is home."

II · What Bonhoeffer Actually Wrote

Bonhoeffer warned against a faith that had become an idea to be admired rather than a call to be obeyed. Grace without discipleship, he wrote in Discipleship, is grace without Christ. The prayer that costs nothing begins, over years, to address no one in particular.

III · Today's Audit

In your most recent act of worship, were you present to God, or present to the routine? Write your honest evidence — not what you wish were true, but what you can actually remember.

IV · The Recall

If your practice were removed tomorrow, what — if anything — would you miss first: the encounter, or the routine?

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What You Receive

A serious workbook. Delivered instantly.

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  • The complete 30-day workbook (PDF)
  • The six-domain P.R.I.C.E.D. framework
  • Daily Observation reflections
  • Bonhoeffer-sourced daily passages
  • Today's Audit writing prompts
  • The Recall — daily closing questions
  • Six Weekly Verdict pages
  • Final Day 30 personal verdict
  • Printable P.R.I.C.E.D. Scorecard
  • Cheap Grace vs Costly Grace reference sheet

Sourced from Bonhoeffer's actual works.Not internet quotes.

Every reflection in this workbook draws on Bonhoeffer's own published writing — not viral misquotes, sermon clichés, or political slogans borrowed to sound serious.

Honest Answers

The concerns worth naming.

Is this just another devotional?

No. It is structured as an audit. It does not begin with comfort — it begins with examination.

Will it make me feel condemned?

The goal is diagnosis, not condemnation. It locates where faith already costs — and where it has quietly become decorative.

Do I need to know Bonhoeffer?

No. Every concept is introduced in plain language, drawn from his own published works.

Is this political?

No. It is about cheap grace, costly grace, and the ordinary domains of a Christian life.

How much time will it take?

Fifteen to twenty-five minutes a day, for thirty days. Serious, not overwhelming.

Is this therapy or pastoral counseling?

No. It is educational and reflective — not a substitute for pastoral or professional care.

A seven-day guarantee.

Try the first seven days. If the workbook does not help you see your faith more clearly, request a refund. No questions. The risk sits with us, not with you.

The Offer

The Cheap Grace Self-Assessment

A 30-Day Audit of Your Faith's Real Cost

  • The 30-Day Workbook$29
  • P.R.I.C.E.D. Framework Guide$14
  • Six Weekly Verdict Exercises$12
  • Final Day 30 Verdict Exercise$9
  • Cheap Grace vs Costly Grace Reference Sheet$7
  • Printable P.R.I.C.E.D. Scorecard$5
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Questions

Everything else, answered plainly.

Do not let another year of faith go unexamined.

You have believed for a long time. That matters. But the question remains — where has that faith cost you something real? Begin the 30-day audit, and find out.

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