{"id":5068,"date":"2011-05-21T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2013-09-23T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T04:25:25","slug":"steve-taylor-measure-of-your-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/steve-taylor-measure-of-your-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Taylor &#8211; What is the Measure of Your Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5071\" title=\"Key to Success\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Key-to-Success-300x273.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Key-to-Success-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Key-to-Success.jpeg 363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I <a href=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/steve-taylor-formative-theologian\/\">previously wrote<\/a> about how Steve Taylor is one of my formative theologians. I think I may have gotten a lot of my foundational theology from his music.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a song he wrote called &#8220;<a title=\"What is the Measure of Your Success?\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/what-is-measure-your-success\/id340064087?i=340064300&amp;uo=4&amp;at=11lbgo\" target=\"_blank\">What is the Measure of Your Success?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a question that has plagued my life for several decades now, and only recently am I beginning to see that my answer the question is the same answer that Steve Taylor hints at in this video.<\/p>\n<p>How do you define success? What is the cost to yourself, to your family, and to others to achieve it?<\/p>\n<p>As you watch the video, be reminded that Steve Taylor recorded and performed in the 1980&#8217;s. Yes, he has the 80&#8217;s hair, and the 80&#8217;s clothes. But the ideas are still true today.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Taylor - What Is The Measure Of Your Success\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J6OAP1mgeeQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>In this city I confess,<br \/>\nI am driven to possess.<br \/>\nAnswer no one, let them guess.<br \/>\nAre you someone I impress?<\/p>\n<p>I am a big boss with a short fuse,<br \/>\nI have a nylon carpet and rubber shoes.<br \/>\nAnd when I shake hands, you&#8217;ll get a big shock.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll be begging for mercy when the champ is through.<br \/>\nYou better believe I&#8217;ll put my clamps on you.<\/p>\n<p>In this city, be assured,<br \/>\nSome will rise above the herd.<br \/>\nFeed the fatted, leave the rest.<br \/>\nThis is how we won the west.<\/p>\n<p>I am a safebox,<br \/>\nI am the inner sanctum.<br \/>\nWhen the door locks\u00a0I hold the passkey.<br \/>\nYou say you can&#8217;t take it with you?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll see about that, won&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>Push&#8230;.push&#8230;.push!<\/p>\n<p>In the city, I confess,<br \/>\nGod is mammon, more is less.<br \/>\nOff like lemmings at the gun,<br \/>\nI know better, still I run.<\/p>\n<p>I am an old man,<br \/>\nAnd the word came.<br \/>\nBut you can&#8217;t buy time or a good name.<br \/>\nNow when the heirs come around<br \/>\nLike buzzards on a kill,<br \/>\nI see my reflection in their envious eyes,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d watch it all burn to buy another sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>Some men find the fire escape.<br \/>\nOld men learn it all too late.<br \/>\nPush&#8230;.push&#8230;.push the alarm<br \/>\nOld MacDonald&#8217;s bought the farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Taylor asks &#8220;What is the Measure of Your success?&#8221; How do you define success? 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