There are some huge gorillas in the room we don’t like to talk about when it comes to enemies of the Church in the U.S. These gorillas actually make us our own worst enemies.

Tony Campolo has some insight on one:

I have heard a lot of teachers condemn the secular humanism of our world.  The truth is that secular humanism is not the primary enemy of the Church.  Instead, the enemy of the Church is consumerism.  We have made an idol out of the things that are being sold.  We bow down and worship the commodities that are paraded before us on television.  We are enslaved to a mindset that tells us that we must possess more and more because we can never have enough.  These are the things that are dragging us away from Jesus.

We need to deal with the gorillas in the room that keep us from the precious witness of Christ.