Cheap grace and church shopping
John Frye, now visiting Ukraine, shares a local preacher's thoughts on cheap grace and its manifestations in the United States:
Sasha is stunned by another USAmerican church feature. We have the luxury of church-hopping. We are so used to this feature that it is hard to understand the spiritual horror that this feature generates in our Ukrainian brothers and sisters. With our franchizing everything in the USA, including church, we cater to the consumer mentality, to the shopper spirit, to the hopper syndrome.Wow.
I report this to Sasha and he sucks in his breath like I am lying to him. I'm not. Sasha shakes his head and looks so bewildered.
"Oh, John, that does not happen here. When we unite to the church, it is a covenant decision. It is serious. We would be horrified to see Christians in Lutsk shifting around from church to church. We pastors would not allow it."
posted by Milton Stanley at 8:14 AM
2 Comments:
"We pastors would not allow it"???... you can take the man out of totalitarian society, but you can't take the totalitarian mentality out of the man! (or something like that)
I had trouble with that, too, but I won't let his faults overshadow ours. We're a church-hopping society, and that's sinful.
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