CONSUMER CHRISTIANITY

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The berean call audio

The berean call article

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[Guest Christian Counselor]

This is a terrific God ordained message containing thoughts that I have been trying very ineffectively to express for years.Now that someone has finally written my thoughts so compellingly,I feel like printing the article and running around and posting it on the front door of every church in town.It does not need to be delivered to Catholic churches,its message is just for Protestants.

The inescapable problem is that we live in a captialistic society and churches have to function like businesses or they will go out of business,being unable to pay their bills.However,this article in a throughly magnificent manner that the Holy Spirit has told me God approves of,has detailed the excesses of capitalistic churches.One of the worst problems is that many ministers fail to discuss sin in any detail for fear of upsetting their customers.Sin and hell were the topics Jesus spoke of most frequently.The worst historic example of this was the failure of most Protestant ministers to talk about the sin of racism until after the federal government passed laws making it illegal.Ignoring the politically unpopular teachings of Jesus continues in most churches today for fear of losing customers which is why the sin of war is seldom even hinted at.Of course this failure to present Jesus' teachings has resulted in the entire nation sinking into a state of astonishing moral violent depravity and sickness.Fortunately for God's sake, there are exceptions and specifically the United Methodist Church should be held up as a good Christian example.The leaders of this church which George Bush is a member of,have determined that he must repent for the war crimes he has committed.Unfortunately,they haven't been able to present their church ruling in person because Bush refuses to meet with the leaders of his own church.

There is one advantage of belonging to a large commerial "full service"church ,they do offer numerous services,fellowship groups and opportunities for volunteer services that small churches can not hope to equal.As long as the members of these socially popular churches realize that at church they are getting a watered-down,partial and politically as well as socially acceptable version of Christianity and they then make up for this lack by holding their own religious activities at home,especially Bible reading, to comply with the commandment to keep the Sabbath day (the whole day) holy and to supplement the "Christian Light" teachings they received in their church;no harm need come from membership in one of the heavily commercial consumer oriented churches described in the article. Attending church should only occupy a couple hours of the full day of religious observance the Ten Commandments require of us.All Christians are required to have their own home churches on the Sabbath day.