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Theolog on 'the idolatry of church-jumping'

Posted by cicw

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

From Theolog:

Sometimes institutions are truly intractable, and exodus may be the only way to free their slaves. Still, there is something nefarious at work here. Eugene Peterson notes that when the heart’s proclivity to idol-making is combined with North American consumerism, the sad result is a soul-numbing, market-based smorgasbord that impels people to jump from church to church—and compels religious leaders to spend most of their energy finding out how to attract the unsettled. Perhaps rejecting tradition for novelty is only a matter of style. But it may also be a form of idolatry as addictive as any narcotic.

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