Michael Spencer, aka the Internet Monk, has a great post on his blog about the trap of materialism and how it's often ignored in our culture. He follows up with some challenging question that are worth asking yourself. Here is a preview of what he has to say.
What interests me is how Americans Christians have largely exempted an equally corrupting common set of sins from these same kinds of evangelical efforts at mutual sanctification. Where are the vows and communities aimed at helping us live free from the corrosion of materialism? Where is the peer pressure for what Piper calls “wartime living and giving?” Where is the recognition that Jesus taught many explicit and unmistakable things about possessions, money and materialism?Posted by rose at March 6, 2007 06:53 PM