What's wrong with the North American church? Too many try their earnest to fit a largely consumeristic model of church. Check out this video:
Apparently September 18th is National Back to Church day (because evidently the church takes Summer's off).
Why is this a fail? Fundamentally it is a demonstration that the contemporary church has tunnel vision. The posture is all about consumption--how the church (building) can be the fixture of Christianity.
TheOoze has changed their blogging platform to include a number of different voices from their reading community. Today up popped a tirade on TOMS and BOBS shoes. The zealous youth leader lamented on the disconnect between labor practices of the manufacturers to the final 'charitable' giveaway of a free pair of shoes to a kid in need.
... TOMS and BOBS… stop the charades. We, the public, are no longer “buying” your hypocrisy. You need to begin, right now, employing fair labor practices and giving shoes away because it’s right, not as part of an advertising campaign to make you richer. Full article here.
Emotion aside, she's right, TOMS and BOBS shoes have a lot of answers to give for what has become in the very least bad intentions at foreign aid. Here's why.
It's in your church right now, maybe on the staff computer. Pornography has grown rampant in an age where the internet fulfills all desires and people yearn to meet spiritual needs in an orgy of sexuality.
In a poll of 1,000 respondents, 50 percent of Christian men and 20 percent of Christian women were found to be addicted to pornography. Conducted by ChristaNet.com, a popular Christian marketplace website, the poll asked visitors about their personal sexual conduct.
Personally those numbers are quite low. They did not say the difference between married and singles, however, I'm sure the numbers fluctuate. What's sad is two things, a) the rampant expansion of the problem, and b) the unwillingness for churches (particular evangelicals or are the most 'high and mighty' of the bunch) to address the issue head on.
Ever been to a series of sermons about porn and sex addictions? Didn't think so.
What can you do in the mean time? Perhaps an internet filter? Accountability buddies?
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There's something very wrong in Christianity (I'll use evangelicals as an example because they're the ones getting all the attention).
Evangelicals, ironically, don't understand what evangelism is.
They think rationally convicting someone about Jesus is evangelism. To me that's far too narrow. Continue reading
1) The live on coffee and no sleep
2) They have trained themselves to ‘get the most done in the least amount of time’
3) They’ve been trained to doubt nothing – just tell the proff what he wants to hear to guarantee high marks, faster Continue reading