It sounds like freedom. It’s actually its own quiet prison. In this message from our Myths That Shape Us series, Mikel takes apart one of the most comfortable lies in the church — the shrug that says if we’re forgiven anyway, then how we live is just a footnote. It’s a lie with a long history: the Apostle Paul heard it coming two thousand years ago and stopped mid-letter to answer it.

Along the way: a reverse status game played in coffee shops, a man trying to “die solvent,” and why the coming judgment might be less like a courtroom and more like the best coach you ever had. Grace didn’t wipe your record and leave you in the courtroom — it changed your address. And it isn’t the end of the road. It’s the trailhead.