My senior year of high school, I remember an itinerant preacher rolling through our church, selling a different take on ambition. He told our youth group that we needed to have a “holy ambition.” At the time, I thought it was just another weird Christian phrase and a terrible name for a mid-90s Christian boy band. I could imagine the announcement over the PA system at youth group: “Forget Backstreet, ‘N Sync, and 98 Degrees! You don’t have to go for that, because tonight, we have the latest band to hit the Christian music scene . . . Holy Ambition!” Cue the track. Hit the stage. Crowd goes
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