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| − | '''Fast Food Christianity''' is [[consumer]]-oriented Christianity that treats churchgoers as customers and is oriented toward pleasing them rather than toward remaining true to the [[Gospel]].<ref>[http://healthelanddevotionalarchives.wordpress.com/category/fast-food-christianity/ Fast Food Christianity], from Heal the Land Daily Devotional Archives</ref><ref>[http://carolinachristianconservative.blogspot.com/2005/05/fast-food-christianity.html Fast Food Christianity], from Carolina Christian Conservative</ref> Since "the customer is always right," a fast-food Christian church waters down its message so as not to scare off its congregants (or their [[tithe]]s), often taking care to rebuke only other people for their [[sin]]s. | + | '''Fast Food Christianity''' is [[consumer]]-oriented Christianity that treats churchgoers as customers and is oriented toward pleasing them rather than toward remaining true to the [[Gospel]].<ref>[http://healthelanddevotionalarchives.wordpress.com/category/fast-food-christianity/ Fast Food Christianity], from Heal the Land Daily Devotional Archives</ref><ref>[http://carolinachristianconservative.blogspot.com/2005/05/fast-food-christianity.html Fast Food Christianity], from Carolina Christian Conservative</ref> Since "the customer is always right," a fast-food Christian church waters down its message so as not to scare off its congregants (or their [[tithe]]s), often taking care to rebuke only other people for their [[sin]]s. A fast-food Christian church may also ignore any parts of Biblical morality that are inconvenient to advancement in liberal political circles, ignoring the words of Christ in Matthew 16:26, "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" The difference between fast-food Christianity and [[cafeteria Christianity]] is that the former focuses on a church's institutional distortion of God's Word, while the latter focuses on an individual worshiper's doing so. |
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Revision as of 20:21, August 15, 2017
Fast Food Christianity is consumer-oriented Christianity that treats churchgoers as customers and is oriented toward pleasing them rather than toward remaining true to the Gospel.[1][2] Since "the customer is always right," a fast-food Christian church waters down its message so as not to scare off its congregants (or their tithes), often taking care to rebuke only other people for their sins. A fast-food Christian church may also ignore any parts of Biblical morality that are inconvenient to advancement in liberal political circles, ignoring the words of Christ in Matthew 16:26, "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" The difference between fast-food Christianity and cafeteria Christianity is that the former focuses on a church's institutional distortion of God's Word, while the latter focuses on an individual worshiper's doing so.
References
- ↑ Fast Food Christianity, from Heal the Land Daily Devotional Archives
- ↑ Fast Food Christianity, from Carolina Christian Conservative