Success. In all areas of life. As a pastor, it’s all about church size, relevance, and impact. If your church is big, you must be doing something right and you become an expert/celebrity and you speak at conferences and write books and tell people to do it your way.

Everybody else feels like a schmuck because they’re not as big/relevant/impactful/cutting edge as you are. It’s a tyranny, I tell you.