Fruit Vs. Works

One more Bonhoeffer quote before I finish "The Cost of Discipleship."

"Works are dead, fruit is alive, and it bears the seed which will bring forth more fruit.  Works can subsist on their own, fruit cannot exist apart from the tree.  Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth...  There is no room for boasting here, but only for an ever more intimate union with him." 

Goodbye legalism and the anxiety that goes with it. 

Goodbye cheap conversions with no outward change.

Goodbye religious pride and self righteousness.