Luther said that grace alone did it,[26] and his followers repeat it literally, with the one difference that very soon they left out and did not consider and did not mention what Luther always included as a matter of course: discipleship. Yes, he no longer even needed to say it, because he always spoke as one whom grace had led into a most difficult following of Jesus. The followers’ own teaching [“by grace alone”] was, therefore, unassailable, judged by Luther’s teaching, but their teaching meant