Pastor J.D. Greear has named the commandment that Christians of every generation break the most.
“People sometimes think the second commandment (don’t make carved images) is just a restatement of the first commandment (don’t have other gods before God). There is some overlap, but there is also a shade of difference,” Greear, who heads Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, wrote on his website Monday.
“While the first commandment focuses on worshiping the wrong gods, the second commandment is actually about worshiping the right God in the wrong way,” he added.
“We break this command and ‘make carved images’ not just by having golden statues but whenever we define God as we want him to be rather than as He is.”
The pastor warned that “there is probably no command we more consistently and routinely break than this one,” noting that people like to interpret God in their own way.
He wrote, however, that God “is who He is” regardless of the ideas people have.
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