Even while these people were worshiping the LORD, they were serving their idols. To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their ancestors did.2 Kings 17:41 Many church-going Christians are deeply involved in idolatry, while claiming to worship the true God. The reason is that many of us Christians think of idolatry as bowing down to wooden idols as in times passed, not knowing that idolatry is not simply worshiping a wooden statue but it is the act of putting anything before the True God. Idolatry : an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed. In Judaism and Christianity, the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry: "You shall have no other gods before me." Many Christians believe that these things do not apply to them and that God is number one in th...