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Secondhand Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

God has offered us firsthand knowledge of His love, His grace, and His power. Yet so often, we too easily settle for someone else's descriptions, the Cliff notes from another's spiritual journey. We are content for "God-experts" to do the heavy lifting and then give us the bottom line. And like any secondhand information, after enough times through the grapevine, the truth about God deteriorates...

unconsciously—bring God into a temple of Dagon? How often in our lives is Christ living among idols, specifically the idol of increase, victory, and success? You may protest, but the question we may never have bothered to ask ourselves is if our desire to serve Christ and our drive to succeed in life are mutually agreeable goals. By the preaching in many churches in America today, the question itself seems absurd, out of place, or even archaic. But this contemporary version of faith that works nicely