I love to read. And I’m a big fan of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His book, The Cost of Discipleship, is a classic on what it means to follow Jesus. If you spend any amount of time in the car, want something to listen to while working out on the elliptical or prefer to listen rather than read, you might want to download this book. Of course, since it’s free, there’s no downside…

This book is quite simply, one of the most profound and important books of the 20th century. Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived a testimony of his thoughtful and engaging writers.

What to Expect:

Focusing on the most treasured part of Christ’s teaching – the Sermon on the Mount with its call to discipleship, and on the grace of God and the sacrifice which that demands.

Viewed against the background of Nazi Germany, Bonhoeffer’s book is striking enough. At the same time, it shares with many great Christian classics a quality of timelessness, so that it has spoken, and continues to speak powerfully, to the varied concerns of the contemporary world.

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Of course, you can always buy it in print at Amazon and read it.

I love to read. And my appetite for books usually exceeds my budget for buying them, so I am always on the lookout for free books. I just got this, so I wanted to share it with those of you who study the Church in North America.

Some studies suggest Christians in North America are not qualitatively different in their character and practices than nonbelievers. Could that be true?

In The Shape of Faith to Come, research expert Brad J. Waggoner and his team measure the beliefs and actions of twenty-five hundred active Protestant churchgoers from across the country against seven key standards of biblical spiritual formation. The unpredictable findings reveal the current state and potential forecast of discipleship in the United States.

LIMITED TIME OFFER: download the first 175 pages of The Shape of Faith to Come at no cost here. The first two thousand entries will also gain access to a FREE Online Spiritual Formation Assessment!