Less is More 

     "Are we too buttoned-down? As Christians, are we blindly loyal? I sometimes worry that we put too much stock in the opinions of what I'll call 'public Christians.'

Lynn Vincent, WORLD magazine

     "Those with big platforms, plenty of followers, and lots of guest appearances on TV. I'm not saying a big audience is a bad thing. But pride goes before a fall (Proverbs 16:18), and some public Christians begin to believe their own press. 

     "Heaven's Hall of Fame is not associated with climbing to significance, but with obscurity, sacrifice (Stephen) and servanthood (Ruth). The principle that those who are first in the world shall be last in the kingdom is central to Jesus' teaching on humility and the worldly trappings of success.

     "He must increase," John the Baptist said of Jesus, "and I must decrease." 

     "We public Christians should spend more time figuring out how to be less."