The Importance of Spiritual Language in Ministry

ministry is a great place for guys with the idol of success to hide because you can cloak all your ambition in spiritual language. It's like, oh, I did this all for God when really it's been a lot about me. St. Augustine said that emotions like anxiety and fear are like smoke that are coming from a fire. When you see the smoke, you should trace the trail of smoke back to the fire. The worst thing to do is just wave the smoke away as he said these fires are idols that you're worshipping at.