When Church Becomes An Idol

Alan Paul, who has been a insightful commenter here, pointed me to a blog by Pastor Glen, that I have been reading the last few days.

One post in particular has haunted me since I read it earlier yesterday. It is convicting, insightful, and true. The subject of this post is something I had never thought of before, yet as I read through it realized that anything that takes our eyes off of Christ can become an idol, even the local church. We can care so much about how those in our local church perceive us, it can cause us to perform for the accolades of the local church, than for the accolades of God.

This statement however, seemed to hit me right between the eyes. Pastor Glenn writes:

When the church is your false god, getting rejected by a church (not the Church) feels like, well, being sentenced to hell.

Read the rest of Pastor Glenn’s post here.

It’s easy to forget our worth to Christ and we let others assign our worth to us. It’s easy to make idols of most anything. Including our local church.