Bill Kinnon has a great post on consumeristic church, something that Eugene Peterson compares to the anti-Christ in The Jesus Way. Bill is about as blunt as Peterson is.
Consumerism in the church has been a weird topic for me the last little while. On one hand a lot of church leaders admit to me that they know their church is based on very consumeristic ideas and that is wrong but on the other hand, most don’t know what to do about it or fall back on the “good things are still happening” which may be true but it kind of stops the conversation about if another way could produce even more good things or what if the bad things about it are worse than the good things.
So I followed the link left in the comments. “Let’s talk about it” he said. Oh. Okay. The link landed me on a blog called, “Video Church Blog”. It took me a minute or two before I got it. Not “Church Video Blog”… but “Video Church Blog”.
I don’t know what to say. I really don’t.
I saw that as well and I am with Bill and you. It kind of leaves one speechless.