This Week's Topic: Worship

"Our fundamental problem in life is not sin but idolatry"

"when you come together as a church community you do more harm than good. You are more focused on your faction than you are on God."
1 Corinthians 11:17-18 paraphrased)  

 
Reflect
 
Please read the following quote from Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It's brilliant and haunting. It is an example of the results of idolatry. 

"Every human idealized image that is brought into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be broken up so that genuine community can survive. Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.....

Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. They enter the community of Christians with their demands, set up their own law, and judge one another and even God accordingly....

Because God already has laid the only foundation of our community, because God has united us in one body with other Christians in Jesus Christ long before we entered into common life with them, we enter into that life together with other Christians, not as those who make demands, but as those who thankfully receive. We thank God for what God has done for us. We thank God for giving us other Christians who live by God's call, forgiveness, and promise. We do not complain about what God does not give us; rather we are thankful for what God does give us daily."
 
Prayer
 
“Lord,  by your Grace prevent me from ever loving my ideal of a person (which is idolatry) than the person himself.   Amen”

*You Version Courage poll from yesterday.