139 - Are We Placing Something Ahead of Christ? - July 7th, 2026

"Are We Placing Something Ahead of Christ?" — Jon Shuler on Anglican Identity and the Danger of IdolatryWhere your treasure is, there your heart is also. In episode 139, Jon Shuler follows the money — and what he sees troubles him. So much of what the church spends is devoted not to mission, but to maintaining a distinctly Anglican identity. Watching the FIFA World Cup, he's struck by how sport becomes an idol for millions — and how the same thing can happen, quietly and unconsciously, with Christian identity. Shuler traces his own lifelong struggle with the question "what kind of Anglican am I?" — Catholic, evangelical, charismatic, biblical — until the Spirit brought him to the only identity that finally mattered: a man in Christ. Then he turns to the Anglican Church in North America and asks a question he admits he raises with fear and trembling: when our energy and resources go toward what is distinctly Anglican rather than what is distinctly Christian, are we verging on placing something ahead of the Lord Jesus Christ? A searching, personal, and provocative episode for every Anglican, church leader, and Great Commission Christian.