Going to Church: Celebrating Tradition, Rituals and Empty Worship

GOING TO CHURCH TO WORSHIP: But who are the churches worshiping?

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
—Colossians 2:8

Empty Rituals, Empty Traditions

Americans lay great store in “going to church.”

Americans put their faith into the things of the church.

What did Jesus say about such man-constructed idols of pseudo-holiness?

“Then came together unto him [Jesus] the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other…