Consumerism

Out of Ur has a short little interview with Dan Kimball about consumerism and the church. After discussing the effects of consumerism, “Is it really producing people who are living and demonstrating the fruit of the Spirit in their lives? Are they loving one another and loving God more?” He goes on to describe how Vintage Faith is trying to change that:

We’re asking God to transform us (because it can’t be done through human effort); into a worshiping community (because we want to be worshipers first); of missional theologians (because if we’re on a mission in our culture we have to be thinkers).

We’re calling the church more of a missional training center as much as we can. We’re launching community groups. We’re calling them "community groups" even though we see them as house churches, but that name has weird connotations for some.

Definitely worth a read.