“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.”
— Steven Furtick
Widely shared quote by Furtick, first posted on his Twitter account on May 10, 2011. Became one of the most cited lines in modern church culture.
I grew up in a barbershop town in South Carolina. My dad cut hair six days a week, never comparing. Then I got online and saw pastors with bigger stages. I felt small. Their screens were curated, my gut was real. You are doing the same thing now, measuring your worst days against someone else's best posts. Stop. Your behind-the-scenes is where the real work happens.