When Peter and John healed a congenital cripple at the gate of the temple, the man immediately "stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Idolatry may have only an old-fashioned theological connotation to many people, but in fact image-making and image-worship have for many centuries sidetracked human beings and wasted much of their time and energy.
Whenever any one of us longs to understand himself in a spiritual rather than a material sense, the Christ comes in some way and says, "To you this day the true idea of yourself as the child of God will appear.
