How can you make God an idol? What does it mean to worship the idea of God more than God His/Herself? Whos image of God do you look to when you worship?

Have you ever taken any time to look at a portrait of someone else? Take the Mona-Lisa as an example. While it’s true that without that painting none of us would even know who this was, it still doesn’t really tell us much about her. As a matter of fact, we have no idea of what makes her, her at all!

How often do we do this very thing with God? We spend our time looking at other people’s portrayals of God and craft for ourselves an idol out of their revelation. But that leaves us complacent without learning who God is to us uniquely. There is no relationship with a painting, no depth to who was originally depicted beyond the scene portrayed.

We can spend our time looking to other people, church, systems, and even our own works but it is all in vain if we do not take the tie to get to know who God is to us. It’s time to quit committing idolatry with an idea of God.

This week we talked about:

* Making an idea of God into an idol

* Fears of certain practices as being Godless

* The dangers of idolizing the church

* God versus systems

* Making an idol out of someone else’s understanding of God

* Making an idol out of working for God

* Making yourself an idol to others instead of allowing them to come to God on their own

* The simplicity of having a relationship with God

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