Cost of NON Discipleship

On page 16, Dallas Willard references Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Cost of Discipleship" (which we'll reach in about 9 months) to talk about the cost of non-discipleship. I think this is a very fruitful way to look at the issue. Discipleship is the opposite of "easy Christianity" or "cheap grace" as Bonhoeffer describes it. But Willard's notion of looking at the cost of non-discipleship reminds me of another's response to those who always bring up the problem of evil. This person asserted that the real problem, for the spiritual sceptic, is the problem of goodness. How explain such glories and heights of moral virtue that one does run into in this life? How explain self-sacrifice for others by perfect strangers? How explain, to get right down to it, that there is something rather than nothing?
Willard flips the normal categories and highlights the costs of non-discipleship, such as abiding peace, a life full of love, hopefulness in discouraging circumstances, etc. ~smo