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I was at a sermon seminar this past summer where a pastor said “sin” in every other sentence. I told him that I had heard him say “sin” more in a day than I hear in a month at my church. He replied, “That's because I don't believe in cheap grace. I know the absolute truth of the Good News: That I am a sinner and Christ died for my sins.” “Well,” I said. “Hate to break it to you, but grace is worse than cheap; it's free. And the Good News is that gift of God's grace is free to all who turn toward it and believe God's beloved community has come near. It's sin that's cheap. It cheapens our relationship to God, to ourselves, and to others. That's the cheap part.” It is as Pastor Jack Stephenson once said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.” Yet the main thing isn't that we humans are awful, sinful, totally depraved, worthless worms. The main thing is God's grace. God's grace is the main thing. That is the power we rely on. The Good News is that God somehow entered the life of Jesus and