“Next, let us ponder our human propensity to develop idolatries. We appropriately value some important matter, something that we need to take seriously, but then that something seems to overstep its bounds and becomes overly prominent in our life. It starts to usurp the place of God. For example, instead of God being the only true God in our lives, we might start to let money become a god. Of course it is right to be good stewards of our money. That is a basic principle for our faith. However, have we ever let that principle get out of hand so that we become such “good stewards” that we are no longer generous as the Bible invites us to be?”
Marva Dawn in The Unnecessary Pastor: Rediscovering the Call (Vancouver: Regent, 2000) 83.