Christian — Committed or Consumers
The consumer mentality of our society has the potential to undermine our values and revalue our relationships. If we assign value to ourselves and others based on the things we buy, then we risk consumerism becoming the framework we interpret everything else with.
We all know people whose identity is constructed by the clothes they wear, the vehicle they drive, the music they listen to on their ipod. There is real danger that we will approach Christianity as a brand not a worldview. We demote Jesus from “LORD” to “label”. Its practice in our life is just one more thing we consume.
Rather than be committed to strong relationships with a church family and seek to be involved personally and financially in its mission, the danger is that Christians will become church shoppers. We will base our membership on what we like rather than what we believe, on what we get rather than what we give. Church is not something we go to, its something we are.
Stephen Semenchuk