How Much Does Free Cost?
Recently, our staff went to Gateway Conference - which, as always, was incredible. Gateway thinks of EVERYTHING. Free snacks, Free coffee.. ya know, alllll the necessities. Manny & I were getting a cup of their “Free coffee” and started talking about how cool it is that they offer this free coffee, especially since it is right next to their super cute coffee shop which, of course, the coffee there isn’t free. Then it hit me - the free coffee isn’t free. Someone had to pay for it. Someone paid a price for that coffee…. and just because it’s free to me, doesn’t mean it was free for them. I love the way God speaks through the simplest things… like a cup of coffee at a conference. He meets us right where we are, so we can be closer to Him. The grace that covers every fear, sin, sickness, and hurt…. that wasn’t free. Jesus paid for it. Sometimes we get in this habit of “disposable grace” - we treat it like it’s free so we can always get more. While it’s true that you don’t have to do