We're making a podcast this week with tools for our congregation on how to engage with 1-2 Kings. What appropriate timing for this to drop!
I feel like current generations are looking around thinking, "What has this God of yours done for me lately that I should believe him over my own gut instinct?" Yet they are subconsciously aware that they are neither qualified nor equipped to be masters of their own destiny. Hence the plague of anxiety and depression. "Hedging their bets" is a helpful metaphor.
In defense of the current generations, I think a fair number of them (us?) have seen previous generations of Christians hedge their bets too. Idolatry is often learned behavior—even if the idols changes.
I really appreciate your focus on idolatry. So easy to think that if we attend church every Sunday to praise and worship our God, we have no other gods back home we can entertain during the rest of the week. After a 176 page report on human sexuality, my denomination is in the process of splitting over the issue of gay marriage. Instead we should have had a 176 page report on idolatry in our church and culture. That is the issue much more damaging to the mission of our church. Our idolatries are so pervasive because they are so difficult to pin down and call out. They disguise themselves as so many”good things.” Do you have suggestions of ways to identify them?
We're making a podcast this week with tools for our congregation on how to engage with 1-2 Kings. What appropriate timing for this to drop!
I feel like current generations are looking around thinking, "What has this God of yours done for me lately that I should believe him over my own gut instinct?" Yet they are subconsciously aware that they are neither qualified nor equipped to be masters of their own destiny. Hence the plague of anxiety and depression. "Hedging their bets" is a helpful metaphor.
In defense of the current generations, I think a fair number of them (us?) have seen previous generations of Christians hedge their bets too. Idolatry is often learned behavior—even if the idols changes.
I really appreciate your focus on idolatry. So easy to think that if we attend church every Sunday to praise and worship our God, we have no other gods back home we can entertain during the rest of the week. After a 176 page report on human sexuality, my denomination is in the process of splitting over the issue of gay marriage. Instead we should have had a 176 page report on idolatry in our church and culture. That is the issue much more damaging to the mission of our church. Our idolatries are so pervasive because they are so difficult to pin down and call out. They disguise themselves as so many”good things.” Do you have suggestions of ways to identify them?