“If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.” IfsWayWould BeChristianCultureDifficultChristLaysPossessionConsumersExtrasConsumerismDiscipleLukeOverconsumptionDevoteeConsumer Culture Book:A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World Source: A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World
“Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.” NeedsPersonsSelfPlayDreamCultureFoundEnergyDealsProductsAmountPossessionDeeperLustEndlessEnormousEaseConvinceBelongingConsumerismConsumingIdolatryAdvertisementsOverconsumptionMarketersConvince UsFears And Dreams Author:Marva Dawn
“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.” PeopleDoeSelfMatterFormCultureIndividualForceBornCasesSocietyCivilizationMassOriginalsPossessionEnormousDelusionPlasticCoastEndowment Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.” MenArtYoungCultureSpeakCommunityClassAmbitionExpectationsPossessionYoung ManGiftedScholarshipRipeArt And ScienceHoping For The Best Author:Rutherford B. Hayes