Golden Calf Christianity
The article posted here is a quote from A.W. Tozer. Tozer died in the 1963, after a living of intimate communion with the Lord. He was a man of prolific words and challenging insight. I would recommend that anyone read all they can of Tozer’s writings.
Although, this article is not new, I believe it is worth reading today. If Tozer was appalled at the state-of-the-church in his day, what would he think of today? This brief excerpt from his writing on Religious Boredom is a timely challenge to our churches today.
“It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.” — A.W. Tozer
Gold Calf Christianity1 – by A.W. Tozer
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God. So we have the strange anomaly of orthodoxy in creed and heterodoxy in practice. The striped-candy technique has been so fully integrated into our present religious thinking that it is simply taken for granted. Its victims never dream that it is not a part of the teachings of Christ and His apostles. Any objection to the carryings on of our present golden-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply: “But we are winning them!” And winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To nobility of character? To a despising of the world’s treasures? To hard self-discipline? To love for God? To total committal to Christ?
Of course, the answer to all this questions in NO! We are paying a frightful price for our religious boredom. And that at the expense of the world’s mortal peril!
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1A. W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous (Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications, 1955), 55–56.
