Which one of these arrows defines success?

I had the opportunity to hear from Dave Gibbons early this week at the churchplanters.com Conference. He made a very simple statement that churches all too often define success as:

Up and to the right

However, biblically success is defined:

Down and to the left

Then Dave made this statement which has been rattling around in my brain ever since:

You can impress people from afar, but you can only impact them from up close.

That’s incarnation.

So how do you define success? Up and to the right? What you do.

Or do you define success down and to the left? What Jesus did.