Church shopaholics
What is wrong with me looking to go to another [church]?
What's wrong is this: I'm running away, I'm refusing to reconcile my differences. I’m looking for what the church can do for me and not what I can do for it. I want it easy, comfortable. I admit that’s a little hard to swallow ... but that’s how it is. I need to think about taking up my cross, not leaving it for the next person to pick up.
Now, where do I go from here?
Hmmmm, well I guess I need to work out what I have trouble with at the old church and how to move forward with those issues whether I can afford to return there or not.
Consumerism is the number one enemy (or the tool of our number one Enemy) of the church today. Attack!
Link
Labels: Reflection
what do you think about this?
Richard J. Mouw, "Spiritual Consumerism's Upside: Why church shopping may not be all bad."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/january/29.50.html
Posted by
Anonymous |
September 04, 2008 6:35 PM
i cannot agree with the article. the ecclesiology of the author, i think, have the following shortfalls:
1. he sees spirituality as an individual thing, missing on the communal dimension of our spiritual identity.
2. he sees church shopping or ministry / vocation discernment merely as an issue of choice, where the divine has no role in the process.
this is common shortfalls of evangelicalism. and i am not surprised that evangelicalism is being challenged so much these days.
Posted by
Alan Yu |
September 04, 2008 11:31 PM