As we work our way towards Sunday and our service of Divine Worship, and our reflecting together on the First Commandment; as we pray for those who will be leading and preaching, running Sunday Groups etc.; as we pray that the Spirit would be working in us and preparing us for all He will expose us to this Lord’s Day…
As we do all that, here is a sentence or two from Tertullian - an early Christian leader in North Africa during the Second Century. He wrote a short booklet ‘On Idolatry’, and it opened with this:
“The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgement, is idolatry…”.
Puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?