Dr. Charlton's post on success and failure resonates with my own experience.
Achieving Western culture's definition of success almost inevitably involves moral compromise...lying, cheating, or stealing in some capacity...making this type of success impossible for genuine Christians to achieve.
The legacy of a genuine Christian will most likely resemble the Apostle Paul's, who made a profound difference in the lives of everyone he encountered, though he lost his career and reputation after converting to Christianity.
Indeed, I have seen the following scenario happen time and again, different in detail but similar in its general pattern: the best people at any particular workplace...best in character and in the quality of their work...are eventually chased out by coworkers who gather against them in collective envy, or because these people in some vague sense don't "fit in."
Alternatively, anyone who speaks up about unfair and nonsensical policies while everyone else seems to enjoy exploitation is guaranteed to become the target of a smear campaign, then laid off at the first possible excuse...even if one needs to be invented.
In other words, if someone fits the postmodern ideal of success, he or she is probably a spiritual failure.
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