Christianity and the American Dream
“We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.” - ― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream Platt does a great job in pointing out what comfortable and casual Christians are suffering from. Maybe they believe that they are Christians and have been deceived that all they had to do is walk an aisle and pray a prayer. The average disciple of Christ today is materialistic and consumer driven. We have built the community of Christ around these two things. Here are the reasons I think so: 1. We INVITE everyone to COME to church. We don’t obey the Great Commission to “GO” or “As you are GOING” anymore. We ask everyone to COME to us. Our attendance board depends on counting the ones that are there. So we have built a faith of ATTENDANCE. 2. Because we are pushed to INVITE people to the church servic...