August 11, 2009
Ur Video: Chris Seay on Consumerism
Consumerism is the counterfeit story of our culture.
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Posted by UrL Scaramanga on August 11, 2009
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Great piece... I agree that consumerism is one of the greatest challenges to Christian faith in the Western world.
We're hosting a conference Nov 13-14 in Indianapolis addressing this very question of grappling with consumerism in the Church...
Shane Claiborne, Kelly Johnson and Will Samson will be the main speakers with many excellent workshop leaders too...
More info:
http://englewoodcc.com/consumingfire/
Chris Smith
Englewood Christian Church
Indianapolis
Posted by: Chris Smith at August 11, 2009
This economy could cure a lot of these issues.
Posted by: willoh at August 11, 2009
A few years ago, some guy made a comment about how God was punishing America for it's sins. The sins he was talking about at the time were homosexuality and abortion. But, I think if God was going to punish America for something it is going to end up being for something 99% of Americans are guilty of. Greed, gluttony, and sloth -a.k.a. Consumerism.
Our retirement plans will collapse. Fuel prices will skyrocket. Our cars will have empty tanks. Food prices will skyrocket. Consumption will fall. The dollar will inflate. All of our false gods will be destroyed. This will happen in our life time. Our lives our unsustainable. We will see the first signs, gas shortages, by 2012.
Watch the news. Watch the mobs at the town hall meetings. Look at how the price of ammunition has risen. Everyone knows that there are real problems -deep cultural problems- and are desperately looking for scape goats. Obamacare. Gays. Bush. Terrorist. Socialist. Liberals. Republicans. Environmentalist. Capitalist. Etc. etc. etc. Excuses.
I hope the Church will be ready to help and humbly offer sanctuary.
Posted by: Dallasm at August 11, 2009