Of cheap grace I haven’t heard of before I sarted blogging. Since then I have seen this cheap grace term thrown around in a number of posts and comments and I still don’t understand what it means so I thought I would rather ask than stay stupid forever.

Here is what confuses me:

Now grace is given freely and if grace is not free it is not grace to begin with, right? So how can grace be cheap… or expensive if it is free? If however it refers to the cost to the One who gives the grace it is a different story, for the cost of this grace is higher than can be measured by any earthly standard, so it cannot be that either. Now it seems to me that those who use this term use it whenever someone suggests that grace is offered universally. In such a case should grace not be worth more? I am confused. Please help me understand.