Sounds great, right?
Unless you get an email with that heading from a friend that you were supposed to call but didn’t.
This happened to me last week. True story.
And this thing has so much truth in it.
No matter what you do or who you are, get ready to dig in.
And yeah, it stung when I read it. But it was a great example of confronting with care (i.e. carefronting).
Your favorite worship song. Your favorite book of the Bible. Your favorite megachurch. Your favorite Christian author.
Like me, I am sure that you could easily name each of those.
But I want to tell you that your favorites are damaging to influencing and connecting with people.
Why?
Because they don’t care.
What is important are their favorites.
Of course you might be thinking, “But what if we share similar favorites?”.
Then I would say, they are less damaging.
Hear me out.
If you are trying to reach those that have not engaged in a relationship with Jesus, than I am pretty sure that their favorite worship song isn’t “God of This City”. Their favorite book of the Bible isn’t Acts. Their favorite megachurch isn’t Church of the Highlands. Their favorite Christian author isn’t Donald Miller.
In fact, they don’t even have favorites in those categories. They don’t even have those categories.
And if we build anything on our favorites, then we are building for us.
Not for the lost and not for God.
