In the gospel-simple life we do not live to please men; we live to please the Lord alone. As Puritan Thomas Boston (1676–1732) said it, “Men-pleasers, and those who please Christ, divide the whole world.”32 Sometimes that division becomes very clear, and in those times gospel simplicity causes our tension with the world. There are two ways to live, and the Christian who seeks to live a life pleasing to God finds himself uncomfortably out of place in this world at times.
