Would you get up in the middle of the night for it?

A recent throw down with Bobby Flay revealed an interesting way to measure how good a pie you have in your refrigerator.

The challengee was a couple of ladies in New England famous for their berry pie.

One of them defined how they measured the value of their pie:

Is it good enough to make you get up in the middle of the night to have some?

That was the question that the pie lady came back to.

She assured the viewers that the pies she and her colleague made were.

Even after the judges declared her pie second to Bobby Flay's in the competition she came back to it:

"Yeah, but would you get up in the middle of the night for it?"

"I don't think , " so was her rather subjective assessment.

She lost the contest, but she won with her ability to evaluate based on her criteria.

So it boils down to being remarkable.

Which of our ministries events and activities would we ask someone: "Would you _____________ for it?"

Would you give something up for it?

Would you change your schedule to participate in it?

Would you be willing to show up an hour earlier than you normally wake up for it?

What characteristics would it have?

Maybe it would be a chance to have an honest measured conversation about important issues with someone who sees things differently than you do, but you trust (know) well enough to share a conversation and a different viewpoint with.

Maybe it would be an opportunity to tell someone how they straight up changed your way of thinking or understanding or doing things.

Maybe it would be a chance to take a realistic look at your dreams and how they intersect with the dreams of other people and how you can work together starting now to make them a reality.

Maybe it would be the thing that you get a little bit choked up about talking about and then other people understand what you're talking about because it chokes them up too?

Do we do anything like that?

And if we do, is there any way to do more of it?