As I mentioned a few weeks back, this is a great book: Set Apart by R. Kent Hughes (and it’s less than $10!). I liked his section where he gave six anti-church trends among American evangelicals (found in chapter 10). Here they are.
1) Hitchhiker Christians: These peole say, “You go to the meetings and serve on the boards and committees, you grapple with the issues and do the work of the church and pay the bills – and I’ll come along for the ride. But if things do not suit me, I’ll criticize and complain and probably bail out. My thumb is always out for a better ride.”
2) Consumer Christians: These are “ecclesiastical shoppers [that] attend one church for the preaching, send their children to a second church for its youth program, and go to a third church’s small group. Their motto is to ask, ‘What’s in it for me?’” The consumer mentality “encouraged those who have been influenced by it to think naturally in terms of receiving rather than contributing.” Keep Reading>>>
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