Consumerism and Christianity are extremely uncomfortable bedfellows. It's always good to be reminded of this.
We are taught in the first commandment to love God above everything else. Not your wealth, appearance, car etc, not even your friends and family. So many in the West seem to have lost sight of this.
A timely quote I read this morning, from Saint Sophrony of Essex, from The Mystery of Christian Life:
"I really do not want to take part in the nightmare of fratricide, in war for possession of material goods, in the cruelly unjust distribution of wealth......I pray essentially for only one thing, that all men come to know Christ as he is".
"... let us acknowledge the wrongs that acompany so many of the goods of our lives."
Exodus 28:38 ...the iniquity of our most sacred things
Consumerism and Christianity are extremely uncomfortable bedfellows. It's always good to be reminded of this.
We are taught in the first commandment to love God above everything else. Not your wealth, appearance, car etc, not even your friends and family. So many in the West seem to have lost sight of this.
A timely quote I read this morning, from Saint Sophrony of Essex, from The Mystery of Christian Life:
"I really do not want to take part in the nightmare of fratricide, in war for possession of material goods, in the cruelly unjust distribution of wealth......I pray essentially for only one thing, that all men come to know Christ as he is".
That’s perfectly on point! Thanks, Andrew.
Thank you for this.