Nice post from TC.

 For starters, we must combat the false assumption that God’s kingdom works in a top-down kind of way with the most influential people, such as celebrities, being most valuable. We make this mistake, in part, because we assume that the most visible people in our society are those who make the most difference in moving world history the direction it should go. Celebrities, politicians and sports stars – according to this mindset – are the ones doing big things and therefore making a big difference.

But perhaps part of why we focus on celebrities is because that focus lets us off the hook. We can tell ourselves that they are doing the things that really matter, so perhaps our own role (or even our own sin and unfaithfulness) is not that important. In his essay “The Gift of Good Land,” Wendell Berry argues that it is harder, not easier, to pursue faithfulness in ordinary life, noting that “it may, in some ways, be easier to be Samson than to be a good husband or wife day after day for 50 years.”