“They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless.”--2 Kings 17:15b, NIV Following the death of King Solomon, Israel split into two kingdoms and both began a downward spiral into idolatry, rejecting the worship of Yahweh for the fertility gods native to Canaan. They turned their devotion from God and gave it to other things. In the scripture passage, the writer explains very clearly that if you worship worthless things, you become worthless. What you value determines who you will become. Each of us has certain innate values. What we value gives us worth. These are the things that make us get up in the morning, the things to which we are devoted. We usually don’t think about these but we can identify them when we reflect on what is important to us. When I do appreciative inquiry with a congregation, we begin with exercises that help
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