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We all know what it is like to subscribe to something without fully using it. We pay for memberships, apps, plans, and services that quietly stay connected to our lives even when we barely engage with them. But this message pushes that idea deeper. Sometimes the most expensive subscriptions are not the ones on our bank accounts; they are the ones on our hearts.

Comfort, control, approval, success, money, fear, and security can quietly shape the way we think, live, give, serve, and follow Jesus. In Matthew 19, Jesus meets a young man who had done a lot right, but still had one thing holding first place in his heart. Jesus did not expose it to shame him. He exposed it to free him. The same invitation is offered to us: “Come, follow Me.”

THE BIG IDEA: Some subscriptions are costing you more than money.