Downtown Community Church

We carry assumptions into every aspect of our life. We assume that what makes us feel good is what makes others feel good, we assume that rational people will accept our rational statements, and we even assume that acquiring more money or losing more weight would fulfill us. We carry such assumptions with us into every aspect of life, even into the sphere of our most core needs. Yet, we find ourselves still longing with our needs not met we double down on that assumption instead of changing. We seek for more relationships, more money, more acceptance from others, etc. When this happens it becomes the primary driver of our life and as such is idolatry. We, as a culture, have hidden our idols beneath the guise of intellectuality and nuance, making it harder to recognize idolatry when it exists. An idol is something we put ahead of God that we bow down to and sacrifice for. Idolatry at other times in other contexts was very obvious (i.e. a golden calf), but now it looks more like sacrificing family to the idol o