The cult of personality

Recently, I was told that two very prominent leaders of large churches resigned suddenly. One because he lied about having cancer and God healing him whereas he never had it in the first place. (That alone should be something to be thankful to God for !) The other was very prominent teleevangelist who had to resign due to a relapse in his alcoholism and some sex related pecadilloes.It saddens me because in the wake of all this, there will be bitterly dissapointed, heartbroken, cheated followers who, for some of them, will turn into cynical opponents of everything that represents Christianity. There will be some who will doubt the validity of all said, done and prayed for in the name of Christ. There will be a fallout and someone will alwyas pay.It's why I found myself drawn to Calvinism in recent years. Years of man centered worship, people and youth centered activities led me to cry "Where is God?"And the answer was simpleGod was always there. We displaced him and made idols of ourselves and others. So, it's odd that he becomes almost the lender of last resort while he should have been the primary source of everthing ( to use to banking analogy)God was always there but we found him boring. So we preferred a repackaged God in a man who uses phrases like a religous Emeril Largesse (go watch the Food Channel!). Bam! Pow! We laugh and think the power of God is flowing through this man. We are titillated, excited, warmed in our hearts, tickled to our toes......for what purpose?We have become addicted to the repackaged God and the most blasphemous word in the modern church is "boring". But that is a perception, not a reality. And you make it your reality by reinforcing that. Think about it for a momentYears ago, this would have bothered me. It doesn't so much anymore, but as I said above; it saddens me.  Since I became a Calvinist, it's my opinion that as long as we displace God from total sovereignity; these sad episodes are as likely to be repeated as many times as movies are on HBO.