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5 min readlove always costs
Allie Yost opens this episode of Christ With Coffee On Ice with a confession: she has been bedazzling. Her pepper spray, to be specific—three hours of gluing rhinestones onto a small canister, which left her right shoulder so sore the next morning that her personal trainer had to drop her from five-pound dumbbells to two-and-a-half. It is a funny, self-deprecating story, but it leads somewhere serious. The bedazzling, she says, felt like untangling a wadded ball of yarn in her brain. It was peaceful. She felt Jesus in it. And that sets up the real subject of the episode: what happens when we remove every inconvenience from our lives, and whether we are also removing the very spaces where God shapes us.
The threat of instant gratification
The central argument of the episode is that the modern world has made convenience into a kind of default religion, and that this quietly erodes the qualities God values most: patience, perseverance, sacrifice, and gratitude. Allie is careful not to call for boycotts. She uses Amazon Prime, she door dashes coffee, she has used ChatGPT for the podcast. These are tools, she says, and tools can be stewarded well. But the problem is when the mindset of convenience—get it now, with minimal effort, no friction—bleeds into every area of life, including faith and relationships.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:29) **New Hobby: Bedazzling** - Allie introduces her new hobby of bedazzling and shares a funny story about how it affected her workout.
- 2 (11:18) **Thesis: Convenience is a Threat to Spiritual Growth** - Allie introduces the main topic: how modern convenience and instant gratification can erode character, faith, and gratitude.
- 3 (19:28) **The Core Question: Removing Inconvenience Removes Opportunity** - The central question of the episode is posed: if we remove every inconvenience, do we also remove opportunities for God to shape us?
- 4 (26:03) **Convenience Kills Gratitude** - Allie argues that instant access makes it easy to stop seeing things as gifts, eroding a heart of gratitude.
- 5 (28:19) **Convenience Undermines Patience and Love** - The episode connects instant gratification to impatience, which directly contradicts the biblical definition of love.
- 6 (30:37) **The Danger of Avoiding Sacrifice** - Allie argues that the real threat of convenience is not an easier life, but that it trains us to avoid sacrifice, which is the language of love.
- 7 (37:28) **Love Always Costs Something** - The core thesis is delivered: real, biblical love always involves a cost and a sacrifice.
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Show Notes
Hey y'all ! Welcome to another Friday with CWCOI ! In this week's episode, our host, Ally Yost talks about the negative impacts that convenience can have us. Our character and our faith is important to God and convenience can be a direct threat to those things. It can take away the opportunity for us to be curious, to go the extra mile, or even to be uncomfortable. God often forms us in the process and in the waiting. Don't lose sight of that because you're relying on convenient tools to get by.
"Then he said to the crowd, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me." Luke 9:23
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