Here at Fb we are big fans of TrueFaced – an organization built on the idea that God is more interested in our trust of him than in our pleasing him. It’s a radical concept for many of us, but freeing when grasped.
In TrueFaced: Trust God and Others with Who You Really Are, John Lynch, Bruce McNicol and Bill Thrall draw a clear distinction between these two motives (trusting vs. pleasing), and expose how we are impacted when choosing one over the other.