Consumer Christian
Quote from The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard, pg. 342
Consumer Christian: "One who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the Kingdom of the Heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it."
"Because this is so, they remain not just "imperfect," for all of us remain imperfect, but routinely and seriously unable and unwilling to do the good they know to do, as Paul so accurately describes.
Don't you realize that whatever you choose to obey becomes your master? You can choose sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God and receive his approval. Rom 6:16
The consumer Christians' lives "are dominated by fear, greed, impatience, egotism, bodily desires, and the like, and they continue to make provisions for them."
posted by Royal | 10:45 AM
3 Comments:
It's kinda like being given the keys to a brand new car, and never using them to drive the car!
Good article. Thanks for your visit and comment on my blog.
Seems like there’s a lot of ‘consumer Christians’ or what I call part-time Christians. Our country raced back to God after 9/11 and just a few short years later our courts are busy kicking all references of Him out of our society. God is not part-time and we shouldn’t be either.
i have never heard it put quite like this ... good points!
if you are surfing the web ... you might want to check out http://newlifeemerging.blogspot.com ... i used to read this blog last year, but Rick sounds so angry all the time - at church folks, especially evangelicals - that even though he has had valid points, there was also this certain something that didn't sit quite right with me ... but that might just be my overly sensitive heart? anyway ... i thought you might like to read it, there is alot of comments going back and forth and honest dialogue at times ...
blessings!
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