From ideas editor Kara Bettis Carvalho: Evangelicals of a certain generation, myself included, often say they were heavily shaped in their malleable years by books such as John Piper’s Don’t Waste Your Life, Alex and Brett Harris’s Do Hard Things, or Kevin DeYoung’s Just Do Something. For some of us who were already pretty driven, these books gave a spiritual motive to worldly pressures to achieve and strive toward success inside or outside the church.

In her piece “Diapers of Glory,” former CT correspondent Sophia Lee parallels her own journey of reevaluating success as a stay-at-home mom with her dad’s as a recently retired pastor. Both had big dreams that they didn’t fulfill as expected later in life. But maybe greatness is not what we imagine it to be in our youth.

Just like the disciples, we too often ask the wrong question—who is the greatest?—when we should be asking how to become more childlike and more like Christ.