The Appointed Way: When Man Changes What God Has Established

The Appointed WayDoes God care how we worship Him, or only that our intentions are sincere?In this episode of God, Family & Country, Pastor Kurt and Pat Coyle examine a pattern that runs throughout Scripture: God appoints the way, and mankind repeatedly attempts to substitute something of its own.The discussion centers on 1 Kings 12, where Jeroboam creates an alternative system of worship for the northern kingdom—new worship centers, new priests, a new feast, and golden calves. It was convenient and religious. It claimed continuity with Israel's God. But God had not appointed it.From Eden and Babel to Nadab and Abihu, Uzzah, Saul, David, Solomon, and Jeroboam, the same question continually returns: Will man receive what God has established, or devise something better in his own heart?Pastor Kurt and Pat bring that question into the modern church, discussing biblical authority, false teaching, denominational traditions, spiritual counterfeits, discernment, and our responsibility to test everything we hear against Scripture.The serpent's question in the garden still echoes:“Has God indeed said…?”And Christ's answer remains:“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” — John 14:6A conversation about worship, obedience, discernment, and why God's appointed way cannot be improved by man's substitutes.