"Because we're so careful to keep control over our lives, we water down the ' Christian life' to the point that there is actually very little Christ in it. We're so concerned with it being user-friendly, seeker-senitive, open-minded, and non-offensive that too often it can cease to be Christ-centered. in fact, if we're honest, we have to ask whether our life really reflects a commitment to a living Biblical or to a 'cultural Christianity.' We learn to go through the religious motions, use Christian lingo, attened Christian meetings and events, but we lack the evidence of a life transformed by Jesus Christ. As Pat Morely well described it in his book Man in the Mirror, we create a god of our own preference rather than the biblical God who calls for our allegiance."
-Randy Singer

Sound familiar?  If you’re shaking your head in denial, you’re probably not being honest with yourself. We’ve all been there. We’ve all forgotten at times to keep Christ the center of our lives. At some point, we have all, in the name of reaching out, compromised Biblical truth in one way or another.  And, when we get down to the heart of it, we’ve all tried to fit God into a box, thus creating our own god. Thus, we’re all guilty of idolatry, according to God’s perfect standards.  I never really thought of myself as an idol worshipper, but that quote made me realize just how easy it is to worship the god we want, instead of the God who really is, the God who created the universe,  and is the same yesterday, today, and forever.