George Barna
What we now have might best be labeled consumer Christianity. The psychologist Paul C. Vitz has observed, “The ‘divine right’ of the consumer to choose as he or she pleases has become so common an idea that it operates in millions of Americans like an unconscious tropism.” Millions of Americans today feel free to buy as much of the full Christian faith as seems desirable. The cost is low and customer satisfaction seems guaranteed.
America is not-not yet, anyway-a thoroughly secular society. But its Christianity, in large part, has been watered down and is at ease with basic secular premises about personal conduct and the meaning of life. Such a religion has an uncertain future, for it has absorbed ideas and attitudes that may well lead to its demise. Authentic Christianity and the world are by definition at odds. That was decreed repeatedly and unequivocally by the Founder. The “disciple whom Jesus loved” made the truth crystal clear when he wrote: “If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. . . . We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.”
-George Barna
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