Holy Idols, The drift

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When you were five, Noah came on a flannel board, with two giraffes, a big boat, and a rainbow. That version wasn't wrong. It was early. The trouble is that most of us never go back.

In this second episode of the Holy Idols series, Dr. Kenny Embry looks at how careful, devoted Christians drift. It doesn't happen through rebellion. It happens through reasonable steps that harden good conclusions, until the picture of God in our heads quietly stands in for God himself. Drift is natural, but it is never harmless.

In this episode

• How sincere Bible study turns into expertise, and expertise into a hardened picture of God
• Why the Pharisees didn't leave God for the world, but left him for the Sabbath
• Why working isn't the same as understanding, and confident predictions that missed
• What Scripture says plainly versus the guesses we fill in
• Ossify, or what happens to a conclusion that worked for a long time
• Why the disciples still had the flannel board version in Acts 1
• The difference between maturing and drift, and falling in love with the tools instead of God

Chapters

• The flannel board version of Noah
• Where this series is going
• Pathway versus proxy
• Working is not understanding
• But Scripture is different?
• How much of God do you understand?
• The Messiah nobody expected
• Where we land
• What comes next

Scripture referenced

Genesis 7 verse 2, Genesis 9 verses 20 through 27, Nehemiah 13 verses 17 and 18, Mark 3 verses 1 through 6, Mark 4 verses 37 through 41, Mark 8 verses 29 through 33, Luke 2, Acts 1 verses 6 through 8, Colossians 1 verse 26, John 7 verse 51, Acts 15, 1 Corinthians 13 verse 12, Luke 15

This series comes from Kenny's book, Holy Idols: Godly Acts, Godless Hearts.

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