Consumer Christianity?

A good article by my friend and colleague in North Carolina, Ben Sharpe. Ben is the Rector of Church of the Messiah in Durham, NC.

Overcoming Consumer Christianity
by Ben Sharpe

Each one of us has been infected by a virulent contagion that has crippled our ability to see the world as it truly is. This contagion effects every person in the Western World and has begun to spread to developing countries as well. None of us in the West is immune. Even as I write these words I am aware that my very thoughts may be distorted by this malady. As you read these words this infection is shaping the way you think and understand reality. This disease is not a virus, or a bacterial strain. It is a worldview: the worldview of consumerism. A worldview is like a set of spectacles through which we view reality. Everything about life, even our perception of Christian faith, is colored by the lenses of worldview. The worldview of consumerism dominates our lives whether we are Christians or non-Christians. It is the very air that we breathe and as a result we are not even conscious of it.

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