In case you haven't noticed, we have a fascination in our culture with the subject of greatness.

In fact, you can look at some of our major newsweeklies and the different lists that come out,

such as the 400 richest Americans,

the 100 most powerful people in sports,

50 most powerful women in business.

Fortune magazine has that list.

Another magazine has the 25 most important people in entertainment. has that

25 most important people in entertainment

and then Time magazine

25 most influential evangelicals

and all the evangelical leaders

open that quickly to see if their name made the list.

And then we have Time Man of the Year, narrowing the list down to one.

Time magazine also ran the hundred most important people in the 20th century and

then also Time magazine had designated a person of the century. Do you know who that was in the

20th century? They designated that as

Albert Einstein. And we're just, we have a preoccupation with greatness, with success, with

winning. And if you asked most people to name the greatest people they can think of

it depends what field you would ask but most people would rank

the their answers based on people's achievements on their public

profile on their influence on awards they've received on their natural

giftedness in their field whether it's sports or music or business, but we have a ladder climbing culture,

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