I don’t even think I can add to this.  So I’m just posting this quote, and leaving it open for comments.

Honesty is such a precious commodity that it is seldom found in the world of the church.  Honesty requires the truthfulness to admit the attachment and addictions that control our attention, dominate our consciousness, and function as false gods.  I can be addicted to vodka or to being nice, to marijuana or being loved, to cocaine or being right, to gambling or relationships, to golf or gossiping.  Perhaps my addiction is food, performance, money, popularity, power, revenge, reading, television, tobacco, weight, or winning.  When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry.  Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every day.

-Brennan Manning
The Ragamuffin Gospel