Idolatry: Following Christ or Person · TWOW 67

Idolatry does not always look like bowing to a statue. Sometimes it looks like a reflex to defend your pastor before you have considered whether the critique is true.This teaching addresses a specific and often unexamined form of idolatry: the elevation of a minister, church, or platform to a place that belongs only to Christ. The argument is precise. Because every believer is seated in Christ in heavenly places, no man occupies a higher spiritual seat, and no single church holds a monopoly on the gospel. Drawing from Hebrews 9 and 10, the teaching traces how Christ as high priest completed the reconciliation that no man can replicate or mediate. The call is not to distrust leadership, but to recover the thinking faculties that sonship requires. Christianity is a nature, not a religion, and religion is exactly what forms when believers stop discerning and start deferring.SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 9, Hebrews 10SERIES: Idolatry. A series examining how believers may have stepped into idolatry without recognising it, and what Scripture demands of sons who are called to think.Subscribe to The Word on Wednesday on Spotify or Apple Podcasts for weekly teachings. Find T.S.P at www.tsp.church. If something stirred in you, come and tell us at tsp.church.Sunday deep-dives on The Sonship Place: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Dq9g2qcBw0NRsX7FfS4WmStart your foundation with 21 Days of Fellowship: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZylATnFjGigJtRIdLmQK7