HERO
WORSHIP; CELEBRITIES

I am sure that if we all saw God bigger, we would see people smaller. This is the day of the magnification of slick personalities, and as we magnify men, we minimize God.… We have whole meetings go by in which we never see God at all—we only see His servants. And the curlier the hair of the servant, the more we see the servant. And if he’s been pardoned from murdering his grandmother’s aunt, we magnify him still more. And if he’s been half-converted from movie acting, we magnify him still more.

We always have some big wheel that we are down in front of, kissing the toe of. Then we wonder why the Holy Spirit doesn’t bless us.… There is an awful lot of hero worship in the church of Christ.

Psalm 34:3; 2 Corinthians 4:5–7; 1 Thessalonians 2:4–6

Success and the Christian, 37, 38.