tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847211149012008703.post5074864155557896647..comments2023-11-03T04:50:42.128-05:00Comments on Confessional Gadfly: Thinking on Galatians 5:16-24Rev. Eric J Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17747919365522145094noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847211149012008703.post-47959450448812277542008-08-28T07:14:00.000-05:002008-08-28T07:14:00.000-05:00To a certain extent people selling things have alw...To a certain extent people selling things have always focused on what people want rather than what they need - because people always tend towards what they want. (Think of the old Roman custom of having a person constantly remind the Emperor, "Remember, thou art mortal" - so that they would remember their needs. It didn't always work. . . but still).<BR/><BR/>We have become over consumerist in all aspects.Rev. Eric J Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17747919365522145094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847211149012008703.post-10715123733690739192008-08-27T16:58:00.000-05:002008-08-27T16:58:00.000-05:00Spot on, Pr Brown!Would you also say that our soci...Spot on, Pr Brown!<BR/><BR/>Would you also say that our society has swapped out meeting people's needs with meeting people's wants? What is really good for people is X, but they will pay you to deliver Y.<BR/><BR/>Isn't it interesting how modern Christians are exactly like the world? What we need is the preaching of repentance, but what we want our church to give us tends to be anything but that. We as American Christians can easily look at how the tyrrany of the middle ages infiltrated the church and made it legalistic and tyrranical, but we do not even stop to think that maybe we are as foolish if not more.<BR/><BR/>We know exactly what we want, and there is no short supply of churches that will give it to us. When we find churches that give us what we need instead of what we want, we are shocked, uncomfortable, and bored.<BR/><BR/>It's not about a life of purpose. It's about death and repentence. It is all about Christ. His ways of self-denial and sacrifice are very unpopular with the world and with their friends in the wordly church.Mike Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09202275259518132834noreply@blogger.com