Hidden idols

Posted by chuck maxwell on April 14th, 2010 filed in Chuck's blog

“Those who are not secure in Christ cast about for spiritual life preservers with which to support their confidence, and in their frantic search they cling not only to the shreds of ability and righteousness they find in themselves, but they fix upon their race, their membership in a party, their familiar social and ecclesiastical patterns, (a particular theological lens), and their culture as means of self-recommendation. The culture is put on as though it were armor against self-doubt, but it becomes a mental straight-jacket which cleaves to the flesh and can never be removed except through comprehensive faith in the saving work of Christ.” (italics mine) Richard Lovelace, The Dynamics of Spiritual Life