Could Your Standards Become Your Prison?

Let me say this plainly: I’m not anti-excellence. Stewardship actually demands excellence – faithful and excellent handling of what’s entrusted. But stewardship refuses one thing: excellence at the cost of the soul.

So the correction isn’t “care less.” The correction is: put your standards under the right authority. Standards are tools. They are not a throne. They are meant to serve obedience.