Idol Traditions: Bow down or be Punished

"Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary.  At last they are too often made into idols, and all must must bow down to them or be punished."

 -- J.C. Ryle,  Christian leader and congregational elder in Britain during the 19th-century

Ponder...   professional pastorships, theater seating when we gather on the Lordsday, 45-minute lectures (i.e. sermons), and thimble Communion cups accompanied by commercialized pee-wee pressed bread.