I Want To Be Liked

"I want everyone to like me." That's the confession this message opens with, and it's one most of us share even if we'd never say it out loud. Using Peter's compromise in Galatians 2 and the story of violinist Joshua Bell playing unnoticed in a subway station, this message looks honestly at what it costs us when other people's opinions start deciding what we say, do, and believe.

It offers three practical steps: get honest about who pays the price for our people pleasing, decide who we're going to be before the pressure hits, and start doing good things no one else will ever see.

The message lands on a simple but freeing distinction: living for approval versus living from the love God has already given us. This is for anyone who has caught themselves changing who they are to keep someone happy, and is tired of it.