Who am I pleasing?

Have you ever stopped to think about who you are trying to impress? Or maybe it is who you are trying to reach?

Are you the same person?

I have realized something about the youth in our country. I think I have realized it more and more as I work with students because they remind me of who I was in High school. I did a great job at blending in with my friends all through high school. I did a great job at falling in line, following, not standing up for myself or trying to be real cool.

The question in the back of my head is now: am I still doing that?

Now I think we need to impress certain people, your spouse, your boss, your church (that could be a maybe), those are at least the big ones in my head. The question is, how are we impressing them? Are we stretching ourselves and becoming someone that we are not supposed to be? Are we trying to impress people so much that it takes the place of my goal in trying to impress God?

Maybe that doesn’t make much sense, but what if we try and reach out to people so much, that we forget about why we are reaching out to people?

We are making some changes in our youth room and it has started to dawn on me, am I making necessary changes? Or am I making changes so that we can impress students?

Maybe impressing students is the first step to reaching them for the kingdom. Maybe it is a necessary tool for us to make more of a dent in the students lives.

No matter what the fact is, are we making changes to hopefully help students pursue God more or are we making changes so that we can have a super awesome youth room?

I am not really sure what the right answer, maybe it doesn’t have an answer.

How do you feel about impressing people? Are you stretching yourself to where you don’t know who you are?

What do you think about little changes in the church?