The root of all sin

So I think I still get a couple more goes at mentioning him :). I haven’t yet received the CDs of the talks from the ENGAGE conference in the mail, and I am starting to watch the post. But, very briefly, two of the things I found particularly helpful and challenging from Mark Driscoll were these:

Glory + Sacrifice = Worship

Glory – What’s most important

Sacrifice – What do you sacrifice for glory? This is how you know what is most important.

Worship is our only problem, the root of all sin. All the rest is the fruit.

He talked about what things become our functional saviours, which was well worth thinking through eg for the woman at the well in John 4 it was men and relationship.

Then he asked us six questions to answer the one big question of whether we worship Creator or creation. These were the questions:

1. What do you long for most? (And motives count within that

2. Where do you go for comfort

3. What makes you angry with Jesus? (We have idols and we get disappointed if we don’t get them, but the God of the bible doesn’t exist to serve my false Gods.)

4. What do you make sacrifices for? (Where do you spend your money? Follow it and you might find your idol.)

5. Whose approval do you seek?

6. What makes you happiest?

These were scribbled randomly on my scrap of paper, so if I want to edit these after I listen again to the talks, I’ll let readers know.