The Monday Morning Quarterback

I focused my sermon yesterday on the notion that we all have an "inner altar" upon which we place someone(s) or something(s) to which we pay homage or worship. I said that we are so constructed that we can run away from God--that is we don't have to believe in a supernatural being if we don't want to, but we can't not worship. Whatever is at the center of our lives, on whatever we place ultimate value, that is what we worship. If God isn't on our inner altar, something will replace God.

I noted that who or what is on our inner altar has important ramifications for our lives because we tend to construct our identities around it. In fact, I noted that I consider the counseling and therapy that I do at one level to be a discovery process for who or what is on the person's inner altar. Once we discover a person's idols, the person can begin to address attitudes and behaviors that keep this idol in its place.

I ended the sermon by asking a simple question that has profound implications: What is on your altar?!