It costs us nothing to become Christians, Christ paid the ultimate cost – His life, but it will cost us everything to live the Christian life. It will cost us our lives as well. Not as Christ did in redeeming us, but in living as the redeemed. If our Christianity is not costing us dearly in the areas of forsaking the world, fighting against sin, denying ourselves, living for others, pursuing holiness, serving Christ’s church, being salt and light in the culture, and dying daily to the pull of our flesh to live comfortably and at ease in this world, we know nothing of Biblical Christianity. We have succumbed to easy believism and cheap grace which is no grace (Luke 14:25-33).