Fast Food Christianity

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. 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.