If you’ve been around the church for a while, the odds are you’ve sat through a sermon or two about idolatry, and the pastor said something to the effect of “an idol is anything that takes the place of God in your heart.” One preacher I love said this: “If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning in life, and identity, then it is an idol . . . The human heart is indeed a factory that mass-produces idols.”
