In an effort to be compelling, we are losing what was compelling.

Because somehow we think we are going to get along better with the world if we just blend in.

And so when we blend in, when he said, no, you are the light of the world, you are the salt of the world.

What we have done is that we have just lost our uniqueness.

And in trying to be cool, we are less compelling than we were.

Music than we were. I'm going to do something I would not normally do to get us started on our concept.

I'm going to keep your Bibles closed,

if you would. I'm not going to have you open them from the top because I want to start trying to get you thinking toward the concept before we ever look at it from the point of view of the

scriptures. Is that fair? So I'm about to ask you a question, and I want you to know there's no right answer to it.

It's subjective.

It's going to be a what do you think, and in your opinion, what?

So this is the question I want to throw out to you as we get started.

What do you find most compelling in a person?

If you said, I really find that person compelling, what is it you mean by that?

If it were a group of people and you said, men, they really compel me, what is it that

you're trying to say?

What makes that distinctive to you?

I want to try to help create a little bit of a visual for you so that it will get your

mind going.

Say you're sitting across

the table from somebody, maybe at a Starbucks, maybe at some kind of restaurant. What is it with

your elbow on the table that just keeps scooting that elbow forward? Know what I'm talking about?

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